Chapter 9 - Families & Health Issues

Question 1

What is found in all societies, that unites individuals into cooperative groups and oversee the bearing and raising of children?

Answer 1

Family

Question 2

What is a social bond, based on blood, marriage or adoption, the joins individuals into families?

Answer 2

Kinship

Question 3

What consists of a social group of two or more people, related by blood, marriage, or adoption, who usually live together?

Answer 3

Family unit

Question 4

What is a legally sanctioned relationship that involves an economic cooperation?

Answer 4

Marriage

Question 5

What is the most common family form?

Answer 5

Married couples

Question 6

What is any group of individuals who share a dwelling?

Answer 6

Household

Question 7

The “families by choice” theory from Gazso and McDaniel state what?

Answer 7

Include both kin and non-kinrelations, created through shared events, Life needs

Question 8

What is the couple, not including the children?

Answer 8

Conjugal family

Question 9

What is a family unit composed of one or two parents and their children?

Answer 9

Nuclear family

Question 10

What is a family unit composed of children up divorced parents who live in two households?

Answer 10

Bi-nuclear family

Question 11

What is typically the nuclear family plus other kin?

Answer 11

Extended family

Question 12

What are the different marriage patterns?

Answer 12

Endogamy versus exogamy
Monogamy versus polygamy
Polygyny and polyandry

Question 13

What is the difference between patrilocality and matrilocality?

Answer 13

Man centred versus woman centred

Question 14

What is living away from both families, and more common now with modern technology?

Answer 14

Neolocality

Question 15

What is the system by which members of a society trees can ship over generations?

Answer 15

Patterns of descent

Question 16

What does the structural functional analysis argue about the family?

Answer 16

There are important functions the family meets

Question 17

What is the social conflict analysis say about the family?

Answer 17

Family structure can promote inequality within the family

Question 18

What is the symbolic interactionism Theory emphasize about the family?

Answer 18

The family is socially constructed and always changing

Question 19

What does the social exchange theory suggest about the family?

Answer 19

Courtship and marriage is a negotiation to make the best deal on their partner

Question 20

arranged marriage is more common in what societies?

Answer 20

Pre-industrial

Question 21

What is when people with the same social treat like to marry?

Answer 21

Homogamy

Question 22

What is the least reliable indicator of marital success?

Answer 22

Romantic love

Question 23

Why are the birth rates decreasing?

Answer 23

Both parents have to work, which makes having more children difficult

Question 24

How to social class influence marriage?

Answer 24

Influences the partners expectations regarding marriage, availability and access to resources

Question 25

According to just Bernard, who benefit more from marriage?

Answer 25

Men

Question 26

What includes physical or mental harm, sexual abuse, neglect, or maltreatment?

Answer 26

Child abuse

Question 27

What is the most common form of report a child abuse?

Answer 27

Neglect

Question 28

Why is health a social issue?

Answer 28

The way health is defined, experienced, treated Is deeply embedded in social relations, institutions, and structures

Question 29

What different medical systems tend to shape the meanings and practises of health?

Answer 29

Allopathic medicine, traditional approaches, and complementary and alternative medicines

Question 30

What is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being?

Answer 30

Health

Question 31

What is the social institution that focusses on combatting disease and improving health?

Answer 31

Medicine

Question 32

What are the four way that society effects health?

Answer 32

1) Cultural patterns define health 2) cultural standards of health change over time 3) health relates to a societies technology 4) social inequality effects health

Question 33

How do death rates correspond with birth rates in low-income countries?

Answer 33

Lowered death rates are coupled with reduced birth rates

Question 34

What is social epidemiology?

Answer 34

Study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a societies population

Question 35

What is the approach to health care of the emphasizes prevention of illness and takes into account a persons entire physical and social environment?

Answer 35

Holistic medicine

Question 36

Why does work family conflict arise?

Answer 36

Time related stress from competing demands of different roles imposed on working parents

Question 37

Why is there a rise in dual earning families?

Answer 37

Growth in non-standard work, family earnings and stability and in the quality and women’s higher levels of education and desire for economic independence

Question 38

What includes acts of physical and sexual violence, emotional abuse and controlling behaviors?

Answer 38

Intimate partner violence

Question 39

What is the most common form of violence against women?

Answer 39

Intimate partner violence

Question 40

How has Canadians health changed over the years?

Answer 40

Positive change, reduction in diseases, increased life expectancy, lower infant death rate

Question 41

What are the social determinants of health?

Answer 41

Direct link between Socio economic inequalities and health

Question 42

Indigenous Canadians experience poor health as a result of inequalities. What are some of these effects?

Answer 42

Lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates, more likely to have one or more chronic conditions, poor mental health, low life satisfaction

Question 43

What is the sociology of medicine focus on?

Answer 43

Medical care system, including healthcare institutions, medically related industries, training and work of healthcare providers, medical professionals

Question 44

What is an important framework for understanding the growing dominance and spread of allopathic medicine in social life?

Answer 44

Medicalization

Question 45

What insights does structural functionalism offer into health and medicine?

Answer 45

In a stable society, social institutions work together to support good health for the population

Question 46

What is Parsons sick role theory?

Answer 46

Special position that prevents illness from disrupting social life, equivalent to get out of jail free card

Question 47

How does the conflict theory view health in society?

Answer 47

Considers relationships between health and social inequality

Question 48

Who wrote about the negative health effects of capitalism on the working class?

Answer 48

Engels

Question 49

Why were public health measures enacted?

Answer 49

Prevent epidemics in I’ll health

Question 50

What does the interpretive theory suggest about health and medicine in society?

Answer 50

Considers how meanings of health, illness, care, or socially constructed

Question 51

What is Goffman’s stigma concept?

Answer 51

Some illnesses or generalized beyond the disease to reflect negatively on the person who has a disease

Question 52

What is feminism’s view on health and medicine?

Answer 52

Consider whether, how, and why people who are racialized in gendered have different health and illness profiles

Question 53

What did Kasper and Ferguson examine about breast cancer research?

Answer 53

High incidence and prevalence of breast cancer is related to over diagnosis, occurrence and highly sexualized breast

Question 54

What are the four basic principles that Canada’s universal healthcare program is guided by?

Answer 54

1) Universality: applies to all Canadians on equal terms 2) Portability: benefits accessed across Canada 3) Comprehensive coverage: covers all necessary medical services 4) Administration: nonprofit

Question 55

What is a principle added to universal healthcare by the Canada Health Act?

Answer 55

Accessibility: cost sharing between federal and provincial government

Question 56

What is taking place that means more healthcare services are provided for by profiting companies?

Answer 56

Privatization

Question 57

Where does most of the growth in medical system occur?

Answer 57

Private sector

Question 58

What for main components of medicalization were proposed by Zola?

Answer 58

1) an expansion of what in life and in a person is relevant to medicine 2) maintenance of absolute control over certain technical procedures by allopathic medical profession 3) maintenance of almost absolute access to certain areas by medical profession 4) Spread of medicines relevance to an increasingly large portion of living

Question 59

What is Canada’s healthcare system composed of?

Answer 59

Publicly financed, privately delivered

Question 60

What is unique about the United States healthcare system?

Answer 60

No universal, government subsidize program with healthcare

Question 61

What is great Britain’s healthcare system?

Answer 61

A dual system, combines socialized medicine with doctors and hospitals that operate privately

Question 62

What is China’s healthcare system?

Answer 62

Holistic approach that includes traditional healing arts

Question 63

What healthcare system does Japan have?

Answer 63

Private doctors paid by a combination of government programs and private insurance

Question 64

What is Russia’s healthcare system?

Answer 64

Bureaucratic system where physicians are mostly women and have low prestige

Question 65

What is Sweden’s healthcare system?

Answer 65

Compulsory, comprehensive, government medical care system offer to all – socialized medicine

Question 66

What problem does the sandwich generation refer to?

Answer 66

Individuals, between demands of caring for both dependent children and aging parents