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In explaining social inequality, functionalists ask which one of the following questions?
 
  a. Who benefits from social inequality and at whose expense?
  b. How do people of different social statuses interact?
  c. How does society use inequality to affect social interaction?
  d. Why do the disadvantaged lack the work ethic needed to advance?

Question 2

__________ pay special attention to the social context of health care and give special emphasis to the ways in which health, disease, and illness are defined and experienced.
 
  a. Demographers
  b. Environmental sociologists
  c. Ethnomethodologists
  d. Medical sociologists

Question 3

From a functionalist perspective, social inequality
 
  a. means people in the entry-level jobs work harder.
  b. ensures that the best-qualified people will fill the most demanding positions.
  c. increases the motivation level of all workers.
  d. guarantees that the least-qualified people will not apply for the most important jobs.

Question 4

According to a nationally representative survey of 15,735 health care consumers in 12 countries, people living in __________ are among those least satisfied with their system of health care.
 
  a. the United States
  b. Brazil
  c. China
  d. France

Question 5

The British Medical Association wrote, Developed countries must assist developing countries in expanding their capacity to train and retain physicians and nurses, which will enable them to become selfsufficient.. The Association was responding to
 
  a. subsidized education.
  b. out-migration.
  c. in-migration.
  d. brain drain.

Question 6

Which one of the following best symbolizes post-industrial societies?
 
  a. the plow
  b. the machine
  c. the microchip
  d. domesticated animals

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