MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY MIDTERM
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST VERSION
2025/2026.
Which is NOT a major area of investigation in medical sociology?
Select one:
a. Social facets of health and disease
b. Social behavior of health care personnel and their patients
c. Social functions of health organizations and institutions
d. The relationship of health care delivery systems to other systems - ANS all are major ares
of investigation
Medical sociology is an important area of study because:
Select one:
a. It promotes the role biology plays in social life
b. It represents a departure from the theory-heavy discipline of general sociology
c. It recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or influencing health
d. It is the result of a merger between medicine and sociology
e. None of the above - ANS It recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or
influencing health
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,Medical sociology, as a subdiscipline, began gaining strength:
Select one:
a. It was always part of sociology as a major focus of classical sociologists
b. After World War II with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for research
c. Only in the last two decades when major worldwide health crises highlighted the need for it
d. It never has been a major part of sociology and exists only as a small part of the medical field
- ANS b. After World War II with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for research
The scholar who first provided a major theoretical approach for medical sociology was _____.
Select one:
a. Durkheim
b. Parsons
c. Weber
d. Mead
e. Goffman - ANS b. Parsons
In the case of the sick role, illness is seen as __________, and its undesirable nature reinforces
the motivation to be healthy.
Select one:
a. Deviance
b. Normal
c. Biological
d. Social
e. A stimulus - ANS a. Deviance
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, The World Health Organization defines health as _____.
Select one:
a. Normality
b. The absence of disease
c. Ability to function
d. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
e. All of the above - ANS d. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was
mainly due to _____.
Select one:
a. Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation
b. Better training of physicians
c. The discovery of penicillin
d. Epidemiological transitions
e. All of the above - ANS a. Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation
Unlike infectious diseases, chronic diseases typically are _____ and _____.
Select one:
a. Short term; incurable
b. Short term; curable
c. Long term; incurable
d. Long term; curable
e. There is no difference - ANS c. Long term; incurable
Which of the following are TRUE about health lifestyles?
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EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST VERSION
2025/2026.
Which is NOT a major area of investigation in medical sociology?
Select one:
a. Social facets of health and disease
b. Social behavior of health care personnel and their patients
c. Social functions of health organizations and institutions
d. The relationship of health care delivery systems to other systems - ANS all are major ares
of investigation
Medical sociology is an important area of study because:
Select one:
a. It promotes the role biology plays in social life
b. It represents a departure from the theory-heavy discipline of general sociology
c. It recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or influencing health
d. It is the result of a merger between medicine and sociology
e. None of the above - ANS It recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or
influencing health
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,Medical sociology, as a subdiscipline, began gaining strength:
Select one:
a. It was always part of sociology as a major focus of classical sociologists
b. After World War II with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for research
c. Only in the last two decades when major worldwide health crises highlighted the need for it
d. It never has been a major part of sociology and exists only as a small part of the medical field
- ANS b. After World War II with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for research
The scholar who first provided a major theoretical approach for medical sociology was _____.
Select one:
a. Durkheim
b. Parsons
c. Weber
d. Mead
e. Goffman - ANS b. Parsons
In the case of the sick role, illness is seen as __________, and its undesirable nature reinforces
the motivation to be healthy.
Select one:
a. Deviance
b. Normal
c. Biological
d. Social
e. A stimulus - ANS a. Deviance
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, The World Health Organization defines health as _____.
Select one:
a. Normality
b. The absence of disease
c. Ability to function
d. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
e. All of the above - ANS d. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was
mainly due to _____.
Select one:
a. Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation
b. Better training of physicians
c. The discovery of penicillin
d. Epidemiological transitions
e. All of the above - ANS a. Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation
Unlike infectious diseases, chronic diseases typically are _____ and _____.
Select one:
a. Short term; incurable
b. Short term; curable
c. Long term; incurable
d. Long term; curable
e. There is no difference - ANS c. Long term; incurable
Which of the following are TRUE about health lifestyles?
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