[DOCX] L#. HEALTH SOCIAL AND POLITCAL STRATIFICATION Flashcards
HEALTH
It is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.
Culture-Specific Syndrome (or folk illness)
HEALTH
It is the term used to refer to the ailments a mother experiences after giving birth or after having suffered abortion or miscarriage is she did not follow certain rituals after childbirth
“Bughat”(Ilonggo term) or “Binat”(Tagalog version)
HEALTH
It comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine
Traditional Medicine
HEALTH
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines this as “the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness.”
Traditional Medicine
HEALTH
It is not a religion, but rather a cosmology. It refers to health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs incorporating First Nations healing and wellness while using ceremonies; plant, animal or mineral-based medicines; energetic therapies; or physical/hands on techniques.
Traditional Healing
HEALTH
it is the traditional, indigenous holistic healing system of Western civilization.
Greek Medicine
HEALTH
Greek Medicine was first codified and systematized by the Greek philosopher - physician _____________ in the ___th century B.C.E.
Hippocrates, 4
HEALTH
In the Islamic world, Greek Medicine is known as _______ _____________ or ________ _____.
Unani Medicine, Unani Tibb
HEALTH
“Unani” is the Arabic word for “________”, or ________.
Ionian, Greek
HEALTH
It was the original source and inspiration for many other natural, holistic and alternative medical systems that developed in Europe and the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, which include homeopathy, naturopathy and chiropractic
Greek Medicine
HEALTH
It is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but does not originate from evidence gathered using the scientific method, is not part of biomedicine, or is contradicted by scientific evidence or established science.
Alternative Medicine
HEALTH
It means that everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, which includes access to all medical services, sanitation, adequate food, decent housing, healthy working conditions, and a clean environment.
Human Right to Health
HEALTH
It consists of a wide variety of health care practices, products and therapies, ranging from being biologically plausible but not well tested, to being directly contradicted by evidence and science, or even harmful or toxic.
Alternative Medicine
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
A personality trait rendering the individual acceptable in social or interpersonal relations. It is related to social acceptance, social approval, popularity, social status, leadership qualities, or any quality making him a socially desirable companion
Social Desirables
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
It is a basic motivation whereby we are driven by what others think about us. This is not a small effect and much of how people behave has this need for approval and liking as a fundamental driver.
Social desirability
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
It is the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to others’ social location within a given society.
Social Mobility
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
It is defined as the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between layers or tiers in an open system of social stratification.
Social Mobility
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
These are systems wherein at least some value is given to achieved status characteristics in a society. The movement can be in a downward or upward direction.
Open stratification systems
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
This refers to the overall numbers of people who end up in a different layer of stratification from that of their parents.
Absolute Social Mobility
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
It refers to the differences in probability of attaining a certain outcome, regardless of overall structural changes; a society can have high absolute mobility and low relative mobility.
Relative Social Mobility
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
This describes the socioeconomic levels of a society as “layers,” with the wealthiest and most powerful citizens being at the top. Typically, the top layer of society tends to have lots of property, as well as prestige and social influence.
Social Stratification
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
In this kind of system, the hierarchical social status of a person is achieved through their effort. These types of class systems are achievement-based economic system with social mobility and relations between classes.
There is no distinct line between the classes, and there is a wide range of positions within each status level
Open Class System
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
In this kind of system, people in such societies may be confined to their ancestral occupations, and their social status is largely prescribed by status at birth.
Closed Class System
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
It is a position gained based on merit or achievement (used in an open system).
Achieved status
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
It is a status based on who a person is, not what they can do.
Ascribed Status
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
The status of people is often determined by how society is _____________ - the basis of which can include; wealth and income, social class, ethnicity, gender, political status, religion.
Stratified
In closed stratification systems status is ________, rather than ________.
ascribed, achieved
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
This results from a society organized by hierarchies of class, race, and gender that broker access to resources and rights in ways that make their distribution unequal. It can manifest in a variety of ways, like income and wealth inequality, unequal access to education and cultural resources, and differential treatment by the police and judicial system, among others.
Social Inequality
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
It is characterized by the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society. It contains structured and recurrent patterns of unequal distributions of goods, wealth, opportunities, rewards, and punishments
Social Inequality
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
This refers to the unequal distribution of life chances across individuals. This is reflected in measures such as level of education, health status, and treatment by the criminal justice system.
Inequality of Opportunities
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
This refers to the unequal distribution of income, wealth, and material goods
Inequality of Conditions
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
They believe that inequality is inevitable and desirable and plays an important function in society. Important positions in society require more training and thus should receive more rewards.
Functionalist Theorists
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION
On the other hand, these theorists view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups. They believe that social inequality prevents and hinders societal progress as those in power repress the powerless people in order to maintain the status quo.
Conflict Theorists
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION: HOW SOCIOLOGISTS STUDY SOCIAL INEQUALITY
These include things that can be objectively measured and that contribute to social inequality. Sociologists study how things like educational attainment, wealth, poverty, occupations, and power lead to the social inequality between individuals and groups of people.
Structural conditions
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION: HOW SOCIOLOGISTS STUDY SOCIAL INEQUALITY
These include ideas and assumptions that support the social inequality present in a society. Sociologists examine how things such as formals laws, public policies, and dominant values both lead to social inequality, and help sustain it.
Ideological Supports
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRATIFICATION: HOW SOCIOLOGISTS STUDY SOCIAL INEQUALITY
These are things such as organized resistance, protest groups, and social movements.
Social Reforms
It is defined simply as a “new idea, device, or method”
Innovation
It is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments, and society.
Innovation
It is a social process through which cultural knowledge, practices, and materials spread from one social system to another.
Diffusion.
As opportunities for interaction across cultures increases, so does the rate of diffusion.
