Exam 2

Question 1

what is sociology

Answer 1

study of social lives of individuals, groups, and societies

Question 2

list methods used in sociology

Answer 2

ethnography, interviews, content analysis, surveys

Question 3

what is macrosociology

Answer 3

study of large-scale social systems (political system/economy)

Question 4

what is microsociology

Answer 4

study of personal concerns and interpersonal interactions

Question 5

what is the sociological imagination

Answer 5

viewpoint originated by Wright Mills that recognizes that our personal experiences are powerfully shaped by macrosocial and historical forces

Question 6

what does the sociological imagination connect

Answer 6

personal and political

Question 7

what does the sociological imagination challenge

Answer 7

individualistic approach to understand people’s beliefs, actions, and choices

Question 8

when is a problem considered a public issue

Answer 8

if the problem affects large numbers of people in patterned ways

Question 9

what is medical sociology

Answer 9

focuses on social dimensions of health and illness, interested in social factors that influence both disease and illness

Question 10

define disease

Answer 10

physiological, changes and malfunctions of the body

Question 11

define illness

Answer 11

experience of being sick or having disease; social psychological state

Question 12

describe the medical model

Answer 12

focus on organic pathology of patients (bloodwork, biopsy, account of symptoms); has limitations

Question 13

describe the sociological model

Answer 13

expands focus beyond body, examines interaction between body and external world, bodies inhabit social worlds that affect disease causation, complements clinical model when health disparities are socially produced

Question 14

what are some key areas of study in medical soci

Answer 14

health inequalities, experience of illness, social relationships, US Healthcare/organization of medicine

Question 15

what is illness narrative

Answer 15

stories people tell themselves and others about meaning of suffering

Question 16

what is narrative medicine

Answer 16

medicine practiced with competence in skills of acknowledging, absorbing, interpreting, being moved by, and acting on stories of illness

Question 17

talcott parsons’ sick role

Answer 17

those suffering from illness have diff rights and responsibilities than those who are well

Question 18

what is narrative ethics

Answer 18

ground-up ethical framework that would start from situation of singular patient in order to bring decision making closer to patient’s lived experience

Question 19

what are types of illness narratives

Answer 19

restitution stories, chaos stories, quest stories

Question 20

what are narratives defined as

Answer 20

stories with a teller, listener, time course, plot, and point

Question 21

what is pathography

Answer 21

writing about illness

Question 22

what is autopathography

Answer 22

writing about one’s own illness

Question 23

what is literature and medicine

Answer 23

refers to study of medical and health related issues presented in literature (poetry, fiction, nonfiction writing)

Question 24

diff between rhetoric, narrative, and literature

Answer 24

rhetoric: persuasion
narrative: dialogical stories
literature: texts

Question 25

true or false: literature is invested in authorial intent

Answer 25

false; rhetoric and narrative are

Question 26

what is the key method from literature

Answer 26

close reading

Question 27

define biopolitics

Answer 27

notion that human life is governed by dominant systems of knowledge, economics, and govt so that biological experiences aren't individual but social

Question 28

what is another method in literature and medicine that is not close reading

Answer 28

cultural studies: investigate ways in which culture creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power

Question 29

what is rhetoric of health and medicine

Answer 29

investigates means of persuasion in communicative context, studies how acts of language induce action and create meaning, focuses on written/visual texts

Question 30

what is discourse

Answer 30

collection of statements a culture makes about given subject within particular historical moment

Question 31

who said rhetoric is study of persuasion

Answer 31

aristotle

Question 32

who said rhetoric uses words to form attitudes or induce actions

Answer 32

burke

Question 33

who said that rhetoric is formed on assumptions people share as members of a community

Answer 33

lindemann

Question 34

who said rhetoric is the process to organize experience and communicate it to others

Answer 34

knoblauch

Question 35

what does ethos appeal to

Answer 35

character and credibility of author

Question 36

what does pathos appeal to

Answer 36

emotions and values in audience

Question 37

what does logos appeal to

Answer 37

reason, logical info, relies on rationality of audience

Question 38

what is a rhetorical situation

Answer 38

complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence

Question 39

what is self-doctoring

Answer 39

symbolic and language based activities that result in submission of self to biomedical intervention (symptoms quizzes, self surveillance)

Question 40

examples of self-care

Answer 40

alternative remedies, exercise and nutrition programs

Question 41

what is philosphy

Answer 41

study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence

Question 42

what is epistemology

Answer 42

studies source, nature, and validity of knowledge

Question 43

what is metaphysics

Answer 43

study of fundamental nature of reality and being

Question 44

what is descriptive ethics

Answer 44

study of moral beliefs and practices, explains what people do but now what they should do

Question 45

what is metaethics

Answer 45

study of the meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs (what is morality)

Question 46

what is normative ethics

Answer 46

study of principles, rules, or theories that guide our actions and judgements, provides guides for how one should live their life morally

Question 47

list methods used in philosophy

Answer 47

logical reasoning and constructing valid args, methodic doubt, applied ethics

Question 48

what are thought experiments in philosophy

Answer 48

imaginative scenarios that allow for testing/comparing concepts to better understand connections or logical consequences

Question 49

what is deontology

Answer 49

theory that states it's possible to determine rightness or wrongness of actions by examining actions themselves without focusing on consequences

Question 50

what is utilitarianism

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asserts that morally right action is one that produces most favorable balance of good over evil

Question 51

what did kant believe

Answer 51

reason leads moral agents to know what is right instead of utility, religion, desires, or happiness

Question 52

what is hypothetical imperative

Answer 52

tells us what we should do if we have certain desires

Question 53

what is categorical imperative

Answer 53

imperative we should follow regardless of our particular wants and needs