Chapter 14 Study Guide (revised)

SOC 201A

Chapter 14

Study Guide

1. socialization of nature
2. obesity
3. causes of obesity
4. causes of eating disorders and obesity
5. anorexia nervosa
6. food deserts
7. the functionalist perspective
8. the symbolic interactionist perspective
9. Talcott Parsons’s notion of the sick role
10. Corbin and Strauss
    1. illness work
    2. biographical work
    3. everyday work
11. stigma
12. medicalization
13. modern medicine
14. alternative medicine
15. the biomedical model of health
16. complementary medicine
17. health in the twentieth century
18. differences in occupational status and inequalities in health and illness
19. reversal in life expectancy for women with less education
20. Hispanics in the United States and health
21. Why are some men less likely to seek annual checkups?
22. gender and health
23. Why did diseases such as smallpox and measles produce epidemics that ravaged or completely wiped out native populations in the Americas after contact with Europeans in the late fifteenth century?
24. smallpox
25. human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
26. bisexual
27. transvestite man
28. transvestite woman
29. transsexual man
30. transsexual woman
31. Sigmund Freud
32. Clellan Ford and Frank Beach
33. Western attitudes toward sexual behavior
34. more permissive attitudes toward sex
35. Alfred Kinsey
36. attitudes toward sexual behavior over time
37. Paula England
38. sexual orientation
39. sexual preference
40. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, homosexuality
41. biological and social factors, homosexuality
42. homophobia
43. the Stonewall Inn nightclub raid
44. coming out