Health/Environment/Social Change

Question 1

Treadmill of Production

Answer 1

framework for understanding the social causes and consequences for environmental problems.

Question 2

Cultural Lag

Answer 2

Period of maladjustment when nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions.

This is because material culture changes much more quickly than the nonmaterial culture.

Question 3

Medical Model

Answer 3

An approach in which medical experts define illness or disease, determine and control the course of treatment, and even affect patients’ views of themselves.

Question 4

Medicalization of Society

Answer 4

1. Conflict Perspective
2. The use of the medical profession to informally control and regulate society.

Question 5

Equilibrium Model

Answer 5

1. Parsons/Functionalist
2. As changes occur in one part of society, adjustments must be made in other parts. Otherwise, society’s equilibrium will be threatened and strain will occur.

Question 6

Parsons 4 Processes for Social Change

Answer 6

1. Differentiation (increasing complexity of social organization)
2. Adaptive Upgrading (social institutions become more specialized)
3. Inclusion of groups that were previously excluded.
4. Value Generalization. (Development of new values that tolerate and legitimate a greater range of activities)