Exam 2 sociology

Sociology 210 with Hansell at Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

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By: Chelsey B
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Medical Sociology (11th Edition)
Created: 2011-04-01
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Psychosomatic

psychological stress causes physical illness

Somatopsychic

physical illness causes psychological illness

stimulus based definitions of stress

(1st stage) situations assumed to stress everyone

2nd stage response based definitions of stress

you are stressed because your BP increased

General adaption syndrome

Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

Responses to stress

physiological, behavioral, cognitive, emotional

3rd stage complex model that separates stimuli and response

objective stress, percieved stress, coping behavior, disstress response, personality

Checklist Approach

stimulus based approach, asked people about events on checklist, objective stressful events--> total events predicted illness well

Event sampling bias

many events not mentioned in list, things that dont usually happen mentioned, tested mostly young white males

intra-event variablility

people experience same event differently

contaminated events

can be illness symptoms rather than stressful events

Contextual approach

complex theory of stress, not biases, tries to understand meaning of event to individual, ratings predict better

Loss events

increase depression

Danger events

increase anxiety

instrusive events

increase schizophrenia

Goal Frustration

Increase GI disorders & heart attacks

Challenge events

increase mental disruptions

common sense definition of social

resources provided by others, protects individuals from undue stress, provides things that people need to cope

James House's systematic defination

emotional closeness, instrumental aid, info, self appraisal

Social connection index

asked if people were married but also asked about other social & group relationships; less social connection associated w. higher mortality

Religion

belief in divine being reduces stress, provides a social group that reduces stress, reduces bad heath habits

Durkheim study suicide

people who lived alone more likely to commit suicide

buffering model

can you get help when you need it

Hansell school study of social networks & health

had teachers rate students, had students list their friends, make social pyramid

Leader role

like school the most, fewest abseses, highest BP, highest physical symptoms, best psychological health: Broker role is same

Follower Role

didnt like school, low BP & few physical symptoms; same as isolate role

non medical theory

importance of psychological process in determining health

group practice

advantage: less work, can schedule work hrs

disadvantag: must adjust work style, have boss

Patient satisfaction depends on

doc matches expectations, good doc-patient interaction

physician assistant

midway btw physicians and nurses

midwives

non physicians that deliver babies

Cooley’s looking glass self

- how we see ourselves is our imagination

- how we see ourselves in others imagination and judgment

- how both create feelings in us

Thomas’s definition of the situation

as long as the situation is defined in the individual there will be normal behavior

Goffman’s Dramaturgic “life as theatre” approach

- Social interactions depend on:

o Appearance

o Social setting

o Person’s similar experiences

o How person communicates about themselves through words and actions

face

the positive social value that individuals claim they are expected from them

wrong face

when info about the person's social worth cannot be integrated into his or her line of behavior

face work

- taking actions that are consistent with one’s “face”

Durkhiem Functionalism

the influence of the larger society on individuals. Strongly integrated societies have control over people; integrated people are those that accept community values reinforced through social interaction

egoistic suicide

individual detached from society and suddenly are overwhelmed by stress on their own

anomic suicide

people suffer dislocation when norms or value have no relevance so that controls of society no longer restrain them from taking their own lives

altruistic suicide

people feel themselves so strongly integrated into a demanding society that their only escape seems to be suicide

General adaptation syndrome

Alarm, resistance, exhaustion

Mechanic’s Adaption Theory

Ability to cope= depends on how well society has prepped individual

Parson’s Sick Role

- Links personality, culture, and social order to the behaviors of sick people

Medicalization

medical control of abnormal behavior; medically treating usually non-medical problems of illness; priests referring docs for problems

protestants

- most resistant to seeing a doctor, saw incapacitations as first sign of illness

jews

more likely to see themselves as sick, emphasized fear of outcome rather than feelings states of incapacities; become more restrained after given adequate care

Italian catholics

least cooperative w/doctors, saw pain as first sign of illness

strong, authoritative but were comfortable in hospital setting

Middle class orientation

- emphasizes the merits of respondsibilities and strive to return to normalty= emphasizes rational thinking over emotions as the best way to cope

lower class orientation

tend to reject the sick model b/c they cannot afford secondary gains=most likely to work despite being ill

labeling theory

deviance is created by social groups and makes rules and norms & the infraction of such norms

conditional legitmacy

when deviants are temporarily exempted from normal obligation and gain privileges on the proviso that they seek to rid their deviance

unconditional legitimacy

deviants exempted permanently from normal obligations & granted privileges in view of the hopelessness of their deviance

illegitimacy

where deviants are exempt from some obligation by virtue of their deviance, which they are not responsible for, but gain few if any privileges and take on handicaps such as stigma

Stigma

an attribute is deeply discrediting= to be deemed bad or immoral

Osteopaths

- physicians with the added skill of training in spinal procedures

Chiropractors

- manipulation of bones in spinal column believed to relieve pressure and alleviate pain

Faith Healers

- people who use the power of suggestion, prayer, and faith in god to promote healing

Folk Healers

- used by low-income usually in racial-ethnic minorities

african american folk healers

- all life events (including illness) are viewed in relation to the total environment as either natural or unnatural (good/evil)

- Loudell Snow- folk diagnosis of health problem emphasizes the cause of the problems, not the symptoms

o Illness can be cured, if not by medicine then by magic

Curanderismo

- as long as the four humours (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) are in balance, the body is healthy

-Mexican Americans may see illness as related to ones interpersonal relationships, communitity life, and religion

American Medical Association (AMA)

o JAMA increased awareness & disseminated the latest medical knowledge and spread prestige

o was divided into component societies on the local level, constituent societies, and local house of delegates, a board of trustees and national officers

About this deck

By: Chelsey B
Textbook:

Medical Sociology (11th Edition)
Created: 2011-04-01
Size: 62 flashcards
Views: 610

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