1)Joel Best argues that in colonial times people often relied on priests as experts and thus looked at problems in religious or moral terms while in modern society we often look to ____________ as experts and think about problems in ____________ terms.
Select one:
a. professors; academic
b. politicians; political
c. doctors; medical
d. the media; sensationalized
2)Which of the following is an example of medicalization?
Select one:
a. Doctors receiving higher pay than priests
b. Redefining drug use as a psychological issue rather than a moral one
c. Arguing that cancer is caused by cigarettes rather than radiation
d. Doctors developing political connections
3)Experts are among the most influential claimsmakers because they
Select one:
a. have political connections that help them get their claims out
b. are thought to have special knowledge that qualifies them to interpret problems
c. are favored by the media due to their ability to present claims in an interesting way
d. know how to organize social movements effectively
4)The U.S. government defining alcohol and drug addiction as illnesses and requiring some insurance companies to cover treatment is an example of
Select one:
a. a professional ex (e.g., ex-addict, ex-prisoner, ex-abuser)
b. master frame
c. institutionalization of ownership
d. biomedicalization
5)Researchers interested in the biomedicalization of social problems focus on the
Select one:
a. large number of human problems caused by infectious disease.
b. training of doctors as claimsmakers.
c. negative impact of medicalization on people’s ability to solve social problems.
d. ways troubling conditions are described as having biological roots.
6)Scientific progress is notoriously
Select one:
a. controversial
b. slow
c. newsworthy
d. medicalized
7)Research questions and answers are typically the most clear-cut in
Select one:
a. physical sciences
b. biological sciences
c. social sciences
d. health sciences
8)Joel Best argues that audience’s willingness to grant authority to scientists depends especially on
Select one:
a. how relevant they believe the scientists’ expertise is.
b. the amount of treatment scientists and their claims receive in the media.
c. the official credentials of the scientists.
d. whether the scientists work in the physical or social sciences.
9)The term sociological imagination refers to the emphasis sociologists place on
Select one:
a. the way culture and social structure shape human experience
b. the social construction of reality
c. the need for order in society
d. struggles between groups and individuals for power and authority
10) Lack of understanding about how risks are assessed and calculated often leads to
Select one:
a. excessive focus on issues whose risks have been assessed.
b. public confusion about what is actually risky.
c. a lack of focus on risky activities that have not been studied.
d. all of the above.
