Chapter 14: Education and Medicine

Question 1

Cultural capital

Answer 1

• non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means
• Examples can include education, intellect, style of speech, dress, or physical appearance

Question 2

Functional illiteracy

Answer 2

reading and writing skills that are inadequate “to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level”; one in three U.S. children

Question 3

“Right to die”

Answer 3

pertaining to, expressing, or advocating the right to refuse extraordinary measures intended to prolong someone’s life when they are terminally ill or comatose

Question 4

Primary schooling

Answer 4

Exposure to basic language and mathematical skills

Question 5

Secondary schooling

Answer 5

Expansion of basic skills to include cultural values and norms

Question 6

Social integration

Answer 6

Molding diverse nation togetherthrough shared norms and values

Question 7

Social placement

Answer 7

Enhancing of meritocracy and providing path to upward social mobility

Question 8

Latent functions of schooling

Answer 8

• Providing child care
• Engaging young people at a time in their lives when jobs are not plentiful
• Setting stage for establishing relationships and networks
• Linking schools and career opportunities

Question 9

Symbolic interaction theory on functions of schooling

Answer 9

• Stresses ways education supports operation of modern society
• Overlooks variance in student and teacher behavior within multiple settings
• Does not address problems of educational system and reproduction of class structure across generations

Question 10

Social conflict theory on functions of schooling

Answer 10

Emphasis on ways in which schooling causes and perpetuates social inequality
-social control, standardized testing, school tracking

Question 11

Theodore Sizer theory

Answer 11

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Question 12

Social epidemiology

Answer 12

Study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society’s population

Question 13

Euthanasia

Answer 13

Assisting in the death of a person suffering from an incurable disease

Question 14

Holistic medicine

Answer 14

Approach to health care that emphasizes the prevention of illness and takes into account a person’s entire physical and social environment

Question 15

Socialized medicine

Answer 15

Medical care system in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employs most physicians