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Chapter 14 Education and Medicine
Test number 3 education medicine.
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
03/29/2011

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Term

 What is Education?

 

Definition
a social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms, and values.
Term
Schooling
Definition
Formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers
Term

  where is illiteracy the most widespread?

 

Definition

IN 18 nations out of the 25 and they are all in africa

 

Term

 What % of people in India are literal?

 

Definition
only 60%
Term

T/F 

the gender of the child born in India has great importance on schooling, and life in general

 

Definition
True male dominant because little girls cost their dad a dowry at the time of her marriage and then once married her work only benefits her husbands family. So they don't involve much money in schooling of little girls since it will not help their family in the long run.
Term

 What does the structural-functional analysis think The functions of schools helps society?

 

Definition

Focuses on way in which schooling supports the operation and stability of society;

Socialization- Teachers help pass on specialized knowledge not just family way of life

Cultural innovation- helps mold a diverse pop into one society sharing norms and values.

Social placement- schools identify talent and match instruction to ability. provide social

moblility.

Latent Fucntions- It provides child care for the growing number of one-parent and two-carreer family.

Term

Schooling and Social Inequality

Social conflict analysis?

 

Definition

challenges the structural-functional idea that schooling develops everyone's talent sand abilities.

Social control- that immigrants had to learn english and importance of following orders

Testing- Feel they show soceities dominant culture.

Tracking-assigns students to different types of educational programs. which will help teachers meet a student's individual abilities and interests.

Term

 What % of kids attend public schools?

 

Definition
89% of the 54 millions 
Term

Education

Structural functional approach?

 

Definition
Schooling performs many vitals task for the operation of a society including socializing the young and encouraging discovery and invention to improve our lives. Schooling helps unite a diverse society by teaching shared norms and values.
Term

Social Conflict Approach

For education?

 

Definition

Schooling maintains social inequality through unequal schooling for rich and poor.

With in individual schools, tracking provides privileged children with better educations than poor children.

Term

What is functional illiteracy?

 

Definition
It is a lack of reading and writing skills needed for everyday living
Term
What the point of a policy called school choice?
Definition

 To help improve public schools by giving parents and students a voucher of school to shop for and pick the best one that suits them. by Magnet school specialize in  a particular area=foreign lang. computers etc.

Charter schools- give more freedom to try new policies an programs

Schools for profit- private profit making companies than by local government.

Term

T/F

Home schooling have more school-age children than magnet schools, charter, and for-profit schools.

Definition
True
Term

 Why do parents home school?

 

Definition
They disagree and don't like how the public school teaches and thinks they could teach their kids better than the school also they want to bring them up with a strong religious bringing.
Term

What is mainstreaming?

 

Definition
That is including students with disabilities in the overall educational programs. 
Term

 What is medicine?

 

Definition
The social institution that focuses on fighting disease and improving heath.
Term
 What is health?
Definition
Is a state of complete physical mental and social well-being
Term
What four ways does 4 basic ways?
Definition

Cultural patterns define health- example of a disease in common in one area they may feel that it is so common that it is normal.

Cultural standards of health change over time-Hygiene changed the thought of women brain for further knowledge.

A society's Technology affects people's health- example being in poor nations, infectious diseases are widespread because of malnutrition and poor sanitation. as industrialization raises living standards people become healthier but also industrialization causes overeating, pollution etc.

Social inequality affects people's health- all societies distribute resources unequally. Overall the rich have far better physical mental, and emotional health than poor.

 

Term

Social Epidemiology?

 

Definition
Is the study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society's population. They local at how disease spreads.
Term

T/F

gONORRHEA causes sterilty

 

Definition
True
Term

out of 5 how many are affected by genital herpes in the U.S.

 

Definition
1 OF 5
Term

Euthanasia?

 

Definition
assisting in the death of a person suffering from a incurable disease.
Term
What is holistic medicine?
Definition
An approach to health care that emphasizes prevention of illness and takes into account a person's entire physical and social enviroment
Term
 What are the three foundations of holistic health care?
Definition

Patients are people- they are concerned not just about the symptoms but how people's enviroment and lifestyle affect health.

Responsibility not depdency- patient need to follow doctor orders need more weight on the health of a person on the actual person not the medical provider

Personal Treatment- want a personal and relaxed enviroment such as a home.

Term

 What is socialized medicine and where is it practice at?

 

Definition

a medical care system in which the goverment owns and operate most medical facilities and employs most doctors.

In sweden. citizen pay in taxes

Term

What is the direct-fee system? 

who uses this?

 

Definition

A medical care system in which patients pay directly for the service of doctors and hopsital.

U.S.

Term

 Why does the U.S. not have a national medical care program?

 

Definition
B/c culture stresses self reliance, and has limited government. Politcal support for medical program has not been strong. AMA and the insurance oppose national medical care.
Term

What are the three types of way used to pay for medical bills in the U.S.?

 

Definition

Private Insurance programs- received benefits from a family member's employer (60%) or Purchase from a private coverage on their own (9%)

Public insurance programs-medicare and medicaid which pays for some medical cost of people over the age of 65. only 27% of this country's people recieve medical benefits from the government.

Health maintenance organization-

Term

 What is a health maintenance organization?

 

Definition
an organizaton that provides comprehensize medical care to subscribers for a fixed fee.
Term
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF MEDICINE?
Definition

SEEN TO KEEP MEMBERS HEALTHY.

Illness is dysfunctional for society b/c it prevents people from carrying out their daily roles.

Term

What is the symbolic interaction approach of medicine?

 

Definition
 Shows how health and medical care are socially constructed by people in everyday interaction.
Term

Social-conflict analysis

of Medicine

 

Definition

the connection between health and social inequality.

By looking at medical care the effects of the profit motive, and the politics of medicine.

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