The process in which the problems of social life become defined and treated like medical conditions is called:
A. Deviance
B. Medicalization
C. Demedicalization
D. Intersection Theory
Answer: B. Medicalization
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a. people automatically desire to implement more advanced technologies when made aware of them b. more advanced technologies require fewer labor inputs c. technological regression frequently accompanies reductions in population pressure d. the amount of time people must work to make a living is unrelated to their attitudes toward technological change
The author of the text concludes that psychological theories of rape
a) explain about one-half of all acts of rape. b) are superior to sociogenic theories of rape. c) can explain only a few unusual cases of rape. d) have no relationship to the rape problem.
Shortly after World War II, the NAACP challenged the concept of separate but equal schooling in the courts. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that separate educational facilities are
a. a matter on which the American public should vote. b. a matter for the states to decide. c. inherently equal. d. inherently unequal.
Unemployment that is the result of the functioning of the political-economic system itself is called ________________
A. structural unemployment B. discriminatory unemployment C. national unemployment D. political unemployment