Social epidemiologists use the term __________ for biological, nutritional, chemical, and physical factors that cause disease.
a. hosts
b. environmental factors
c. disease agents
d. health coefficients
Question 2Many women athletes believe they have to manage the contradictory statuses of being both women and ______.
a. athletes
b. sex objects
c. feminine
d. masculine
Question 3What has kept workers from overthrowing capitalism as sociologist Karl Marx had predicted?
a. Workers slowly gained ownership over the means of production throughout the 20th century.
b. Workers have gained more legal protection in the form of workers' rights and benefits.
c. Individual capitalists maintain strict control over factories and other means of production.
d. Modern management practices have led to collectively owned workplaces.
Question 4__________ is the study of the causes and distribution of health, disease, and impairment throughout a population.
a. Sociology of medicine
b. Social epidemiology
c. Social health
d. Social medicine
Question 5In discussing sports and gender socialization, the text points out that:
a. women athletes no longer encounter any status conflicts between being women and athletes.
b. few girls and women participate in sports that are regarded as exclusively male activities.
c. girls who go against the grain and participate in masculine play as children are more likely to participate in sports as young women and adults.
d. men encourage women in participation in athletics.
Question 6According to sociologist Karl Marx, when the workers realized that capitalists were the source of their oppression, they would overthrow the capitalists and their agents of social control, leading to the end of capitalism. The workers would then take over the government and create a(n) society.
a. free
b. caste
c. egalitarian
d. stratified
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