What is the medicalization of society?

What will be an ideal response?


The process of turning something that was not previously considered a medical issue into a medical matter is the medicalization of deviance. This includes the medical treatment for balding, acne, wrinkles, small breasts, and bulging stomachs.

Sociology

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

1. Age is an achieved status. 2. Gender is an ascribed status. 3. The mass media are an example of a social institution 4. Émile Durkheim argued that mechanical solidarity is characteristic of the interdependence of people in a complex society. 5. The sociocultural evolutionary approach emphasizes a developmental perspective and pictures different types of social structures coexisting within the same society.

Sociology

In the developing world, Asia has more underweight children than Latin America

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

Why do different people take on different views of the environment?

a. If they are conservative, they are against the environment. b. If they are liberal, they tend to take a realistic view of the environment. c. They either believe in science or believe in pseudoscience. d. Their views reflect the contexts in which their environment and society interact.

Sociology

Discuss the relationship between organized crime and opportunity theory.

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology