Test: Social Structures - MCAT MCQ

How does the patenting of seeds for corn, soybeans and other crops by large businesses such as Monsanto cause a conflict between local farmers and agribusiness?

How does the conflict between Republicans and Democrats in Congress affect the U.S. role in the Middle East?

What impacts do cultural views of medicine have on the expectations of care provided?

What role do people who self-identify as locavores play in their community?

These children are formally learning about social roles and how to listen respectfully. This is a latent function of education.

These children are being openly taught reward and punishment for their actions. This is a latent function of education.

These children are being openly socialized to prepare for later roles in adult life. This is a manifest function of education.

These children are being informally taught social and political norms. This is a manifest function of education.

Durkheim

Gumplowicz

Marx

Weber

Where does social inequity cause unequal access to education and proper medical care?

What influences do stricter requirements for medical school admissions have on the medical community as a whole?

How do the labels a patient applies to the level of education differ between nurse practitioners and doctors?

How does gender inequity in medical education influence the opportunities women have in specialized medicine?

Knowledge and language both depend on socially constructed understanding.

Brute facts, such as the central dogma of molecular biology, exist outside of social constructs.

Floods and other acts of nature are brute facts.

Institutional facts, such as the Euro, are created by social conventions.

Social interactions are static over time.

If a person receives social approval from an action, that action will be repeated.

The more often that one is rewarded, the higher the benefit associated with that choice.

People do not actually make rational choices.

Gentrification

Formal education

Hidden curriculum

Gender stratification

Matrilocality

Neolocality

Patrilocality

Ambilocality

A cult

A sect

A denomination

An ecclesia

The medicalization of deviance is the process of changing a ‘bad’ behavior into a ‘good’ behavior. Demedicalization is the normalization of a ‘sick’ behavior.

The medicalization of deviance is the process of changing a ‘good’ behavior into a ‘bad’ behavior. Demedicalization is the normalization of a ‘bad’ behavior.

The medicalization of deviance is the process of changing a ‘good’ behavior into a ‘sick’ behavior. Demedicalization is the normalization of a ‘bad’ behavior.

The medicalization of deviance is the process of changing a ‘bad’ behavior into a ‘sick’ behavior. Demedicalization is the normalization of a ‘sick’ behavior.