Eugenics was a sociopolitical program carried out in the United States and elsewhere during the 20th century. The program sought to engineer society by the social control of hereditarily-passed traits viewed as desirable or undesirable. This most closely fits which false assumption about health interrogated by sociologists?
A. Medicalization of society is unproblematic and has a net benefit for society.
B. People have control over the factors that make them ill.
C. Disease and illness are attributes of individuals.
D. Genetics explains illness and disease to the exclusion of social factors.
Answer: D
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a. art b. gender c. science d. construction
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a. narrowed considerably. b. widened significantly. c. fluctuated moderately. d. remained constants
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. middle-class children had a more leisured life than working-class children b. working-class children's activities were less structured than those of middle-class children. c. working-class children had less opportunity for creative play than middle-class children. d. middle-class children were more harshly punished than working-class children.