Name: Score:
69 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 69
Which program shifted more of the responsibility of running welfare programs onto indivudual
states & mandated time limits for the number of months a person can receive aid?
The Economic Opportunity Act
The Women, Infant, & Children Nutrition Program
The Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
The War on Poverty
Definition 2 of 69
An intellectual consciousness raising movement based on the idea that women & men should be
accorded equal opportunity & respect
Ethnocentrism
Gender
Feminism
Racism
,Definition 3 of 69
RISE: Doctors have social, political power because they offer a universally valued product-health
and longevity and there are limited number due to education and training
FALL: People trust doctors with very personal information and expect individualized treatment;
and doctors use specific props and scripts to assert their power
Rise & fall of medical profession
Culture of poverty
Medicalization
Different forms of equality
Definition 4 of 69
-Devaluation of the benefits of talk therapy
-Overprescribing or misprescribing of pharmaceuticals
-Stigma attached to taking medication for mental illness
-Increasing power of pharmaceutical companies
Meritocracy
Different Forms of Equality
Medicalization of mental illness
Diagnostic & statistical manual (DSM)
Term 5 of 69
Although we now know all humans are the same species, there is still an underlying belief that we
can trace specific traits through:
Our place of birth
Our lineage
Our race
Our ethnicity
, Term 6 of 69
Race is not a fixed biological or natural reality; rather it is:
A social construction
An environmental reality
Biologically invented
Genetic
Term 7 of 69
Prejudice vs. discrimination (differences)
Proletariat: Working class, blue collar
Bourgeoisie: employing class, white collar
Prejudice: thoughts and feeling about an ethnic or racial group
Discrimination: harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of
their racial category without regard to their individual merit
-Does not offer universal health care
-Main types: Fee-for-service, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), Medicare,
Medicaid
-Designed to see if moving less impoverished communities might affect quality of life
-MTO study in particular seemed to show that living in a quieter, less stressful environment
did have very positive effects on children
69 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 69
Which program shifted more of the responsibility of running welfare programs onto indivudual
states & mandated time limits for the number of months a person can receive aid?
The Economic Opportunity Act
The Women, Infant, & Children Nutrition Program
The Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
The War on Poverty
Definition 2 of 69
An intellectual consciousness raising movement based on the idea that women & men should be
accorded equal opportunity & respect
Ethnocentrism
Gender
Feminism
Racism
,Definition 3 of 69
RISE: Doctors have social, political power because they offer a universally valued product-health
and longevity and there are limited number due to education and training
FALL: People trust doctors with very personal information and expect individualized treatment;
and doctors use specific props and scripts to assert their power
Rise & fall of medical profession
Culture of poverty
Medicalization
Different forms of equality
Definition 4 of 69
-Devaluation of the benefits of talk therapy
-Overprescribing or misprescribing of pharmaceuticals
-Stigma attached to taking medication for mental illness
-Increasing power of pharmaceutical companies
Meritocracy
Different Forms of Equality
Medicalization of mental illness
Diagnostic & statistical manual (DSM)
Term 5 of 69
Although we now know all humans are the same species, there is still an underlying belief that we
can trace specific traits through:
Our place of birth
Our lineage
Our race
Our ethnicity
, Term 6 of 69
Race is not a fixed biological or natural reality; rather it is:
A social construction
An environmental reality
Biologically invented
Genetic
Term 7 of 69
Prejudice vs. discrimination (differences)
Proletariat: Working class, blue collar
Bourgeoisie: employing class, white collar
Prejudice: thoughts and feeling about an ethnic or racial group
Discrimination: harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of
their racial category without regard to their individual merit
-Does not offer universal health care
-Main types: Fee-for-service, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), Medicare,
Medicaid
-Designed to see if moving less impoverished communities might affect quality of life
-MTO study in particular seemed to show that living in a quieter, less stressful environment
did have very positive effects on children
