Medical Sociology 13th Edition Cockerham Test Bank

Medical Sociology 13th Edition Cockerham Test Bank Chapter 1 Medical Sociology

Multiple Choice Questions

• Which is NOT a major area of investigation in medical sociology?
• Social facets of health and disease.
• Social behavior of health care personnel and their patients.
• Social functions of health organizations and institutions.
• The relationship of health care delivery systems to other systems.
• All of the above answers are major areas of investigation in medical sociology.

Answer: E Page: 1

2. Medical sociology is an important area of study because:

• It promotes the role biology plays in social life.
• It represents a departure from the theory-heavy discipline of general sociology.
• It recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or influencing health.
• It is the result of a merger between medicine and sociology.
• None of the above.

Answer: C Page: 1-2

3. Medical sociology, as a subdiscipline, began gaining strength:

• It was always part of sociology as a major focus of classical sociologists.
• After World War II with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for

research.

• Only in the last two decades when major worldwide health crises highlighted the

need for it.

• It never has been a major part of sociology and exists only as a small part of the

medical field.

Answer: B Page: 2

• Which circumstance(s) particularly affected the development of medical sociology in its

early stages?

• Pressure to produce work that could be applied to medical practice and health

policy.

• Rich development of theories unique to medical sociology by academic

sociologists.

• Lack of attention on the role of medicine and health from classical theorists.
• A and B
• A and C

Answer: E Page: 3 1 / 4

• The scholar who first provided a major theoretical approach for medical sociology was:
• Durkheim.
• Parsons.
• Weber.
• Mead.
• Goffman.

Answer: B Page: 4

• What important event occurred in 1951 that began to reorient American medical

sociology toward the use of theory?

• The Vietnam War.
• The publication of Parsons’s The Social System.
• The increase in chronic diseases.
• The growth of universities.
• The political swing towards a more conservative era.

Answer: B Page: 4

• Talcott Parsons’s book The Social System contained which concept important for medical

sociology?

• Micro theory.
• Medicalization.
• Patient power.
• Culture.
• Sick role.

Answer: E Page: 4

• In the case of the sick role, illness is seen as , and its undesirable nature

reinforces the motivation to be healthy.

• Deviance.
• Normal.
• Biological.
• Social.
• A stimulus.

Answer: A Page: 4

• In developing his concept of the sick role, Parsons linked his ideas to which two classical

theorists?

• Marx and Goffman.
• Weber and Marx.
• Marx and Engels.
• Durkheim and Weber. 2 / 4

• Durkheim and Goffman.

Answer: D Page: 4

• What is NOT a task of a sociologist in medicine?
• Analyze the social etiology or causes of health disorders
• Study the differences in social attitudes as they relate to health
• Understand the way in which the incidence and prevalence of a specific health

disorder is related to social variables.

• Develop theory that assists in understanding social issues related to health.
• All of these are tasks of a sociologist in medicine.

Answer: D Page: 5

11. Most sociologists of medicine are employed as:

• Biostatisticians.
• Hospital workers.
• Professors at universities.
• Researchers in governmental agencies.
• Independent contractors.

Answer: C Page: 5

• What trend(s) reduced tensions between sociologists in medicine and sociologists of

medicine?

• Most government funding is awarded to research with practical application.
• Medical sociology itself is converging with general sociology.
• Sociology of medicine became the more dominant side of medical sociology.
• A and B
• B and C

Answer: D Page: 5-6

13. The World Health Organization defines health as:

• Normality.
• The absence of disease.
• Ability to function.
• A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
• All of the above.

Answer: D Page: 7

• One of the earliest attempts in the Western world to formulate principles of health care,

based upon rational thought and the rejection of supernatural phenomena, is found in the

work of the Greek physician:

• Hippocrates. 3 / 4

• Socrates.
• House.
• Aristotle.
• Dioceses.

Answer: A Page: 8

15. The Hippocratic Oath requires the physician to swear that he or she will:

• Help the sick.
• Refrain from intentional wrongdoing or harm.
• Keep confidential all matters pertaining to the doctor–patient relationship.
• All of the above.
• None of the above.

Answer: D Page: 8

• The so-called “clinical gaze” is best associated with which of the following perspectives?
• Medicine of social spaces.
• Medicine of the species.
• Public health paradigm.
• “Whole person” medical care.
• None of the above.

Answer: B Page: 9

17. The medicine of social spaces is concerned with:

• Curing disease.
• Preventing disease.
• Understanding disease.
• Cataloging disease.
• All of the above.

Answer: B Page: 9

• Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century

was mainly due to:

• Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation.
• Better training of physicians.
• The discovery of penicillin.
• Epidemiological transitions.
• All of the above.

Answer: A Page: 10

• The germ theory of disease is a perspective which asserts:
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