Test Bank for Medical Sociology, 15th Edition Cockerham (All Chapters included)
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Complete Test Bank for Medical Sociology, 15th Edition by William C. Cockerham ; ISBN13: 9780357717417. (Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 17).....
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Medical Sociology
15th Edition
by William C. Cockerham
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, Chapter 1
Medical Sociology
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which is NOT a major area of investigation in medical sociology?
a. Social facets of health and disease.
b. Social behavior of health care personnel and their patients.
c. Social functions of health organizations and institutions.
d. The relationship of health care delivery systems to other systems.
e. All of the above answers are major areas of investigation in medical sociology.
Answer: E Page: 4
2. Medical sociology is an important area of study because:
a. It promotes the role biology plays in social life.
b. It represents a departure from the theory-heavy discipline of general sociology.
c. It recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or influencing health.
d. It is the result of a merger between medicine and sociology.
e. None of the above.
Answer: C Page: 4
3. What influences how societies organize their resources to cope with health hazards and
deliver health care to the population at large?
a. Climate
b. Available money
c. Neighboring countries’ health care systems
d. Social, cultural, economic, and political factors
e. Uniqueness of medical education
Answer: D Page: 5
4. Medical sociology, as a subdiscipline, began gaining strength:
a. It was always part of sociology as a major focus of classical sociologists.
b. When Max Weber published his work on suicide in the late nineteenth century.
c. After World War II with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for
research.
d. Only in the last two decades when major worldwide health crises highlighted the
need for it.
e. It never has been a major part of sociology and exists only as a small part of the
medical field.
Answer: C Page: 6
, 5. Which circumstance(s) particularly affected the development of medical sociology in its
early stages?
a. Pressure to produce work that could be applied to medical practice and health
policy.
b. Rich development of theories unique to medical sociology by academic
sociologists.
c. Lack of attention on the role of medicine and health from classical theorists.
d. A and B
e. A and C
Answer: E Page: 6-7
6. Why did sociology’s founders overlook medicine?
a. Medicine was unorganized at the time.
b. Medicine lacked any professionalization to study.
c. Medicine was too secretive to study
d. Medicine blocked sociologists from studying the discipline.
e. Medicine did not shape the structure and nature of society.
Answer: E Page: 7
7. The scholar who first provided a major theoretical approach for medical sociology was:
a. Durkheim.
b. Parsons.
c. Weber.
d. Mead.
e. Goffman.
Answer: B Page: 8
8. What important event occurred in 1951 that began to reorient American medical
sociology toward the use of theory?
a. The Vietnam War.
b. The publication of Parsons’s The Social System.
c. The increase in chronic diseases.
d. The growth of universities.
e. The political swing towards a more conservative era.
Answer: B Page: 8
9. Talcott Parsons’s book The Social System contained which concept important for medical
sociology?
a. Micro theory.
b. Medicalization.
c. Patient power.
d. Culture.
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