The U.S. FDA has approved breast implants as well as Botox and other treatments. In doing so it is granting the medical profession the use of a recommended treatment. This act falls under which stage of the medicalization process?

a. legitimacy (stage 4)
b. claims making (stage 3)
c. prospecting (stage 2)
d. institutionalized (stage 5)


a

Sociology

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a. representative democracy b. classical democracy c. totalitarian state d. authoritarian democracy e. socialist democracy

Sociology

Americans are most worried about predatory crimes.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Sociology

During the last 50 years, Japanese formal organizations have differed from those in the United States by being ________

a. less efficient. b. less profitable. c. more collective in their orientation. d. more hierarchical.

Sociology

According to political theorist Antonio Gramsci, the people who sponsor activities that provide popular pleasure and entertainment in society often do so to

A. deliver messages about what should be important in people's lives. B. deliver subliminal messages that determine what people think. C. help people around the world gain control over their lives. D. directly undermine governments that do not have capitalist economies.

Sociology