Psyc/soc Flashcards
Biopsychosocial approach
Use of multiple levels of analysis, bio med PLUS social factors and psychological factors
Social construction
A social construct is something that exists not in objective reality, but as a result of human interaction. Social creations of shared meanings of health and illness.
Symbolic interactionism
focuses on small scale interaction btw individuals in small groups. (relationship btw patient and physician, 1:1)
**Small scale - individuals
Functionalism
factions of society work together to maintain stability. Society is a system of different components all working together to function.
Conflict Theory
Views society as competing groups that act according to their own self interest, rather than for the greater interest of society equilibrium.
Only theory that focuses on social disruption rather than social equilibrium.
A sociological researcher who is interested in how different societal institutions work to maintain consistence and stability would most likely adopt which perspectives?
- Conflict theory
- Social constructionism
- Symbolic interactionism
- Functionalism
Functionalism
Which of the following perspectives would be most relevant to the study of how interpretations of natural phenomena come to be widely shared and perceived as scientific truth?
- Conflict theory
- Social constructionism
- Symbolic interactionism
- Functionalism
Social constructionism
Suppose that two ppl glare at each other on the street while passing, both interpret as a continuation of an earlier disagreement. This incident is most consistent with which sociological perspective?
- Conflict theory
- Social constructionism
- Symbolic interactionism
- Functionalism
Symbolic interactionism
One researcher takes a biopsychosocial approach and the other takes a sociological approach and collaborate on the study of cause of obesity. How would their approaches differ?
The BPS would examine causal factors in different realms of personal functioning.
The sociological would focus on addressing large scale social inequalities that contribute to obesity
One researcher takes a biopsychosocial approach and the other takes a bio med approach and disagree about the treatment of a patient who presents with a psychological disorder. Why does the bio med approach disagree with BPS approach.
The biomedical model would reduce the patients symptoms to biological underpinnings such as neurotransmitter imbalance.
How would a social constructionist and a symbolic interactionist differ in their examination of the development of knowledge about a specific pathological condition?
A social constructionist would focus on how the understanding of the condition comes to be shared as a society reality of the condition.
A symbolic interactionist would focus on individual interactions that establish shared interpretations of the condition.
Culture
beliefs, assumption, objects, behaviors, processes that make up a shared way of life. people share culture but still have individual difference.
Material culture
objects involved in a certain way of life. Things, toys, tea cups, nuts, bolts, stethoscope, throat swabs.
Non material culture
Not physical.
Shared ideas, knowledge, assumptions, values, beliefs that unify a group of people.
Symbolic culture
Meaning in the mind. every one in the culture knows what thumb up, or wave, or write symbol, or hitler sign.
Social institutions
Hierarchical systems that bring order to interpersonal interactions, structuring society. Ex: Government and economy Education Religion Family Health or Medicine
Demographic
understanding the makeup of a group by classifying people into different categories : age, gender, race, ect
Identity
depends on how you categorize yourself as belonging or not belonging to these various demographic categories
Demographic transition
change in demographics over time. Ex: the decrease in birth and death rates as a society becomes industrialized
Mortality
death rate within a population, also affects population size
Social movement
group of people who share an ideology and work together towards a specific set of goals.
Urbanization
increase in proportion of people living in specified urban areas
Globalization
increasing amount of interaction and integration on the international scale through exchange of products, service, ideas and information.
Spatial inequality
unequal access to resources and variable quality of life within a population or geographical distribution