What is meant by medicalization? Provide examples.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Medicalization is a process that defines a nonmedical condition or behavior as an illness, disorder, or disease that requires medical treatment. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' (DSM's) ever-changing diagnoses and labels are an example of medicalization. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) once classified homosexuality as a psychological disorder, but dropped sexual orientation from its roster of mental illnesses in 1973.
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She concluded that the diversity of responses results from the diversity of exposure individual men have to the structural changes in our society. The first of these changes is a. a decline in economic opportunities for men. b. an improvement in economic opportunities for men. c. a decline in economic opportunities for women. d. a stronger connection between marriage and parenthood.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education that a. separate but equal was unconstitutional
b. segregation within schools was legal. c. racial segregation was illegal, but social class was legal. d. resegregation is constitutional.
A setting where a staff tries to radically change someone's personality through carefully controlling the environment is called a(n) _______
a. anticipatory social center b. cohort community c. total institution d. degradation ceremony
According to Émile Durkheim, religion is
A. the feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality, such as a divine being. B. a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. C. a unified system of beliefs and practices related to profane things. D. a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to worldly things.