Marie grew up in Spanish Harlem with a household income slightly above poverty level. John's family ...

Marie grew up in Spanish Harlem with a household income slightly above poverty level. John's family makes 150,000 a year. Who would be most likely to study Marie and John's individual attitudes and behavior?
 
  a. symbolic interactionist
  b. conflict theorist
  c. structural functionalist
  d. social theorist

Question 2

The American health care system has been described as:
 
  a. curative, acute, and hospital-based.
  b. acute, terminal, and patient-centered.
  c. hospital-based, patient-centered, and achievement-oriented.
  d. socialist, terminal, and hospital-based.
  e. patient-centered, bureaucratic, and subsidized.

Question 3

Symbolic interaction theory addresses:
 
  a. social change produced through competition and conflict.
  b. how social organization results from interaction.
  c. the importance of social activism to produce social change.
  d. the creation and communication of the shared meanings associated with human acts.

Question 4

Darryl catches a particularly virulent case of the flu and is temporarily very sick. Also likely to be affected by the illness is Darryl's:
 
  a. relationship with others.
  b. self-image.
  c. behavior.
  d. all of the above
  e. none of the above

Question 5

According to conflict theory, conflict between competing interests results in:
 
  a. social change.
  b. adaptation of the less powerful.
  c. adaptation of the more powerful.
  d. evolution.

Question 6

Parson's theory of sick role is:
 
  a. doctor-centered.
  b. patient-centered.
  c. society-centered.
  d. mystic-centered.
  e. culturally-centered.

Question 7

Conflict theorists primarily want to know how social structures:
 
  a. give some people unequal access to scarce resources.
  b. contribute to the maintenance of society.
  c. evolve and become patterned regularities of society.
  d. contribute to meeting individual needs through competition.