How is access to health care in the U.S. distributed throughout the population?
a. Health care is more available in urban and suburban areas than in rural areas.
b. Native American reservations have more health clinics for the population than most other areas of the country.
c. Women are seen as needing more help and receive far more attention than men.
d. Health care is one thing that members of minority groups and Whites have fairly equal access to.
Question 2Sociologist Arlie Hochschilds concept of the second shift is discussed in the text as an example of _____.
a. a role set
b. role conflict
c. role strain
d. taking the role of the other
Question 3Immunization against childhood diseases is widely taken for granted. In reality, how is immunization distributed throughout the U.S.?
a. Many inner city and rural residents are suspicious of or don't understand the importance of immunizationsfor children.
b. Government health care programs have been particularly effective in reaching children in urban areas.
c. Special attention is always given to the Appalachian region of the U.S. where a larger percentage of children are vaccinated than in other parts of the country.
d. Childhood immunization is the one type of health care service that is not extremely stratified in terms of its distribution.
Question 4Anne is a college student, a full-time employee, and a mother of two young children. Anne is likely experiencing:
a. role conflict.
b. role strain.
c. status inconsistency.
d. status sets.
Question 5Symbolic interaction theory holds that illness is partly (although obviously not totally),
a. due to changes in social structure.
b. socially constructed.
c. related to power elites in society.
d. None of the answer choices are true.
Question 6When the roles in ones role set clash with one another, the result is role _____.
a. inconsistency
b. conflict
c. strain
d. breakdown
Question 7The relationship between health care providers and patients, for example the patronizing use of we by some nurses, and calling patients by their first names, is most likely to be studied by the _____perspective.
a. functionalist
b. conflict theory
c. symbolic interactionist
d. social control
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