Positivism holds that valid knowledge about the world can be obtained using the scientific method
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How does the social construction of illness—both specific illnesses and illness in general—affect the lives of persons who have chronic illnesses?
What will be an ideal response?
African American segregation in cities is lessening due to ________
A) new immigrants moving into African American areas of cities B) desegregation policies created in the 1960s C) an upwardly mobile large middle class within African American communities D) all of the above
Which of the following is accomplished by looking at an age-adjusted death rate rather than a crude death rate?
a) The age-adjusted death rate adjusts for differences in the age structure over time or between two populations. b) The age-adjusted death rate weights infant mortality more highly because of the importance of infant death. c) The age-adjusted death rate weights deaths over age 65 more highly because of the increased risks of death at older ages. d) The age-adjusted death rate weighs deaths at ages 15-64 more heavily because of the importance of the working age population.
Economist Thomas Malthus stated that the control of the existing population might be averted by either positive or preventive checks on population. Preventive checks are mortality risks such as famine, disease, and war, compared with positive checks, which include limits on fertility. For Malthus, the only acceptable positive check was moral restraint
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