1. Women fall victim to eating disorders primarily because:

2. "A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being" is the definition of:

3. One of the major changes that has improved human health in this century is:

4. The study of the distribution of health and disease in a society's population is called:

5. An eating disorder is defined as:

6. Studies show that most college-aged women believe all of the following statements except one:

7. Eating disorders and compulsive dieting in young women in the U.S. are related to:

8. Looking worldwide, the primary means of HIV transmission is:

9. Assisting in the death of a person suffering from an incurable disease is called:

10. The social institution concerned with combating disease and improving health is:

11. The training and certification of medical doctors is regulated by the:

12. The approach to health care that emphasizes prevention of illness and takes account of a person's entire physical and social environment is called:

13. According to Talcott Parsons, our society responds to sickness by defining patterns of behavior as appropriate for people who are ill. This is referred to as:

14. All of these are characteristics of the "sick role," according to Talcott Parsons, except one:

15. The symbolic-interaction analysis of health and illness emphasizes that:

16. The basic theme of the social-conflict analysis of health and illness is that:

17. Sociologists study health because social forces shape the well-being of everyone. T F

18. In societies, that which is seen as healthy is often that which is morally good. T F

19. Cultural standards of health typically remain the same over time. T F

20. Studies show that most college-age women believe that being thin is the most important dimension of physical attractiveness. T F

21. Scientific medicine is an approach to health care that emphasizes prevention of illness and takes account of a person's entire environment. T F

22. In the structural-functional concept of the sick role, the physician acts as the "gatekeeper," regulating access to the sick role. T F

23. According to social-conflict analysis, "health follows wealth." T F

24. How do U.S. legal and medical experts currently define death?

25. How could symbolic-interactionists help medical schools to better train their doctors?

26. What is sociology's contribution to human health?

27. What is the pattern by which environmental hazards are greatest in proximity to poor people and especially minorities?

28. Factories and toxic dumps are as likely to be constructed in an affluent area as in a poor one. T F

29. What is environmental racism?

30. An organized activity that encourages or discourages social change is called:

31. Activity involving a large number of people, often spontaneous, and typically in violation of established norms, is called:

32. Turner and Killian's emergent-norm theory views crowd behavior as:

33. Social movements differ from other types of collective behavior because social movements:

34. Neil Smelser's structural-strain theory identifies six factors that encourage the development of social movements. All of these are such factors except one:

35. Emergent-norm theory emphasizes the hypnotic nature of crowds. T F

45. In the 1954 Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Court ruled that:

46. Today, more than 40 years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling:

47. A category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that are deemed socially significant is a(n):

48. How do the concepts of race and ethnicity differ?

49. Members of an ethnic category share:

50. A category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits and who are socially disadvantaged, are referred to as a(n):

51. "A rigid and irrational generalization about an entire category of people" is the definition of:

52. All of these statements are true about prejudice except one:

53. What is the term for the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another?

54. Prejudices refers to attitudes, and discrimination is:

55. Select the type of person who, according to Merton, is prejudiced and discriminates against others.

56. Select the type of person who, according to Merton, is prejudiced but is afraid of discriminating.

57. Select the type of person who, according to Merton, is generally tolerant, but discriminates when it is expedient to do so.

58. Select the type of person who, according to Merton, is free of both prejudice and discrimination.

59. Bias in attitudes or action inherent in the operation of society's institutions is called:

60. As a minority person, you find your employer passes you and other minorities by on salary increases, yet your record is the same as or better than the others. You have experienced:

61. What is the term for the physical and social separation of categories of people?

62. _____ is the systematic annihilation of one category of people by another.

63. Hitler's reign of terror and the extermination of more than six million Jews is called:

64. Scientific research has confirmed the rightness of a racial hierarchy.a. Trueb.False

65. The ethnicity of a person can be changed. T F

67. Prejudice and discrimination persist in the U.S. because they are mutually reinforcing.a.Trueb.False