Exam 14: Education, Health, and Medicine

Advancing medical technology has attacked infectious disease in poor countries with what result?

According to the World Health Organization, about how many of the world's people suffer from serious illness caused by poverty?

Dropping out of school greatly reduces a person's chance to earn a good income.

One indication that there is a problem of grade inflation is the fact that almost half of all grades given to today's high school students are

Describe the reasons for the shortage of nurses in the United States.

Current research on human genetics promises to

Following the social-conflict approach, patterns of health and illness are seen largely as a product of

In much of the world, illness and poverty form a vicious circle, with each increasing the other.

Jonathan Kozol characterizes the differences in funding of schools between rich and poor communities and the use of tracking as "savage inequalities" of U.S.education.

In low-income nations, why do girls receive less schooling than boys?

From a sociological point of view, societies define "health" so that being healthy is sometimes a matter of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

The concept of "euthanasia" refers to

List four reasons sociologists claim that health is a societal as well as medical issue.

If you were to visit a low-income nation to study its high death rates, what would you find to be the most common causes of death?

What is "functional illiteracy"? How extensive is this problem in the United States?

Getting into college in Japan, compared to the United States, is more a matter of

According to Theodore Sizer, bureaucracy harms schooling by

From a social-conflict point of view, capitalism fails to support human health because

It is correct to say that the medical establishment in the United States is oriented towards which of the following?

One latent function of schooling is establishing social relationships and networks.