Discuss the racial/ethnic inequalities surrounding health and access to health care.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Race or ethnicity: Use data from Figure 2-3 (racial differences in life expectancy, infant mortality, and self-reported health).
2. Race or ethnicity: Racial differences in treatment for heart disease, asthma, breast cancer, HIV, nursing home care.
3. Low social class may compound race and ethnic differences.
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In husband-wife families with two children, an estimated ____ percent of household expenditures are attributed to children.
a. 21 b. 42 c. 55 d. 82
According to Herbert Gans, which of the following is NOT a function of poverty?
A. Poor people serve as visible reminders of structural level problems. B. Poverty creates the need for services and occupations that serve or deal with people who are poor. C. Poor people provide a market for goods and services that would otherwise go unused. D. Poor people provide a pool of low-wage workers who will do unpleasant jobs.
Informal norms are ________.
A. made by a government for a society, interpreted by the courts, and backed by the power of the state B. norms governing everyday social behavior, the violation of which raises comparatively little concern C. deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society D. None of these answers is correct.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The actors in Richard Emerson’s exchange theory can be individuals or collectivities. 2. According to Richard Emerson, exchange relations between actors are what form social structure. 3. According to Richard Emerson, power is the potential cost that an actor will be willing to tolerate within a relationship. 4. Power-dependence theory focuses on the relationship between collectivities. 5. Richard Emerson believed that in an exchange relationship, the power of one actor over another is a function of that actor’s dependence on the other actor.