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| Illness | A state or condition of suffering as the result of a disease or sickness. |
| Sickness | A term characterized as a social state, signifying an impaired social role for those who are ill |
| Deviant behavior | Sociologists have typically viewed sickness as a form of: |
| Functionalist Thoery | Is the concept that sickness is dysfunctional because it threatens to interferee with the stability of the social system according to which theory? |
| Parson's "secondary gain" | The exemption from normal obligations and the gaining of other privileges commonly accorded to the sick |
| Medicalization | A process where previously non-medical problems are defined and treated as medical problems. |
| Labeling Theory | Is the concept that what is regarded as deviant behavior by one person or social group may not be so regarded by other persons or social groups. |
| Howard Becker | One of the leading proponents of the Labeling Theory. |
| Stigma originated from: | The ancientGreeks who used it to refer to marks on the body that represented something bad or immoral about the person. |
| A blemish of character | People who are physically handicapped or have an STD typically are stigmatized as having: |
| The mutual participation model applies to: | The management of chronic illness in which the patient works with the doctor as a full participant in controlling the affliction. |
| Disease | A term characterized as an adverse physical state, consisting of a physiological dysfunction within an individual |
| Parsons's concept of the sick role | This concept is based on the assumption that being sick is not a deliberate and knowing choice of the sick person, though illness may occur as a result of motivated exposure to infection or injury |
| Erving Goffman | Which theorist's work was not included as part of Parsons's concept of the sick role? |
| Lower class | This group tends to deny the sick role. |
| Italians | This group was more susceptible to pain in the Zborowski study? |
| Jews | Twaddle found that the sick role, as defined by Parsons, was much more applicable to which group? |
