prevention
c. The frequency of when patients visit their doctors
d. The view that medical care is a commodity sold for profit.
5. Iatrogenesis is defined as:
a. Injuries caused by medical care
b. The infant mortality rate
c. Diagnosis of mental illness
d. A drug used in caesarian sections
6. Why are infant mortality and life expectancy rates better in other countries than in America?
a. In other industrialized countries, babies come from storks
b. Poor living quality, food, stability and overall poverty in America
c. Because most industrialized countries create industries to manufacture babies
d. Because other countries use less abortions
Aging: Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives
7. What is the theory that examines how people adjust when they disengage from productive roles?
a. Disengagement theory
b. Continuity theory
c. Activity theory
8. Which theory focuses on how people with multiple roles carry one or more of these roles into retirement?
a. Continuity theory
b. Differential association theory
c. Labeling theory
9. Before 1986, what age were elderly people required to retire by the social security legislation?
a. 60 years old
b. 65 years old
c. 55 years old
Religion: symbolic interaction perspective
10. Why is a symbol a condensed way of communicating?
a. It is easier to understand than regular communicating
b. Symbols are not easily recognizable and interfere with communication
c. Beliefs are more quickly distinguished when using symbols
d. Certain symbols tell you something about the group displaying it
e. None of the above
11. What does the term “born again” refer to?
a. The reincarnation theory
b. A life transforming religious experience
c. A ritual performed by many religious groups
d. a. and b. above
e. none of the above
12. Rituals develop from what?
c. a. and b.
e. none of the above
13. Which of the following is NOT an example of a social movement?
a. Animal Rights movement
b. Women’s Rights movement
c. Civil Rights movement
d. Hispanic rights
e. Moving a friend into his new apartment
14. Why did Anglo-Americans think it was acceptable to take over Mexican territory?
a. God’s divine plan
b. Mexicans offered it to them
c. Treaty of Versailles
d. All of the above
15. In what year did Garrison begin publishing his newspaper?
Importance of Family
16. The following are ideas of symbolic interactionist perspective on family, which of the statements is false?
a. Gendered division of labor does not occur
b. Children are getting less attention from parents than they used to
c. Women are spending more time on housework
d. All of the following are false
17. Concerning social class and child rearing, all of these are true of the differences between working-class and middle-class styles of raising children except:
a. Working-class parents usually believe that children develop naturally
b. Middle-class parents typically let their children choose their own leisure activities
c. Their type of work parents do affects how they rear their child
d. Middle-class parents are more likely to withdraw privileges or affection as punishment
18. Which of the following is not part of the six basic needs of survival of every society?
a. Economic production
b. Care of the sick and aged
Religion: Functionalism and Conflict Theories
19. What is not a function of religion?
a. Provides guidelines on how to live
b. Learn how to make an economic gain
c. Sets limits on people’s behavior
20. What is a negative result of the functions of religion?
a. People don’t follow the religion
b. People don’t know what to do with their life
c. Terrorist acts are sometimes carried in the name of teligion
21. What is a religion’s primary means of retaining its status?
a. Control food selection of congregation
b. Reinforcing ideologies
Health Care: Functionalist and Conflict perspective
22. What is/are the reason(s) why the United States’ life expectancy rates are worse than the other nations?
c. Emotional problems
d. Suffered more accidents and violence
e. All of the above
23. With health care viewed as a commodity rather than a right, the United States h