Socialogy101 Chapter 11Review questions1.How does the uniqueness of health as a “good” help explain the high status of doctors? How does this, in turn, help explain the discomfort around the commercialization of bodies?2.What would be an argument in support of sin taxes on fast-food meals? Considering that fast-food meals are usually less expensive than healthier options and provide food quickly for underpaid and overworked Americans, how might sin taxes unintentionally reproduce class differences?3.What are some of the ways in which people in the United States with fewer resources are at a greater health risk? According to certain groups at a particular disadvantage?4.How does licensing within the medical profession relate to the status of doctors? How does the AMA contribute to the power of doctors?5.A student gets very sick the day before an exam and (thanks to a doctor’s note is allowed to take the test later. Describe Talcott Parsons’s “sick role.” How do this role’s rights and obligations help explain this example?6.How could the social construction of illness help us understand hypochondria?7.Describe the way race and stress interact to create a higher health risk for African Americans. Do sex and higher socioeconomic status make a di erence?8.How has the way psychologists diagnose mental illnesses changed? How is the understanding of context related to the use of drugs to treat mental illness?Socialogy101 Chapter 11Review questions1.How does the uniqueness of health as a “good” help explain the high status of doctors? How does this, in turn, help explain the discomfort around the commercialization of bodies?2.What would be an argument in support of sin taxes on fast-food meals? Considering that fast-food meals are usually less expensive than healthier options and provide food quickly for underpaid and overworked Americans, how might sin taxes unintentionally reproduce class differences?3.What are some of the ways in which people in the United States with fewer resources are at a greater health risk? According to certain groups at a particular disadvantage?4.How does licensing within the medical profession relate to the status of doctors? How does the AMA contribute to the power of doctors?5.A student gets very sick the day before an exam and (thanks to a doctor’s note is allowed to take the test later. Describe Talcott Parsons’s “sick role.” How do this role’s rights and obligations help explain this example?6.How could the social construction of illness help us understand hypochondria?7.Describe the way race and stress interact to create a higher health risk for African Americans. Do sex and higher socioeconomic status make a di erence?8.How has the way psychologists diagnose mental illnesses changed? How is the understanding of context related to the use of drugs to treat mental illness?
