University of Central Florida

SYO 4400

Chapter 6

Health Behavior and Lifestyles

Multiple Choice Questions

1)Medical sociologists divide health-oriented behavior into two general categories:

                      behavior and                            behavior.

1. 1. Preventative; disease causing.
   2. Health; illness.
   3. Health lifestyles; sickness.
   4. Health seeking; spreading.
   5. None of the above.

2. What is defined as activity undertaken by individuals for the purpose of maintaining or enhancing their health, preventing health problems, or achieving a positive body image?
   1. Health lifestyles.
   2. Illness behavior.
   3. Health behavior.
   4. Health promotion.
   5. Premedical.

3. What are collective patterns of health-related behavior based on choices from options available to people according to their life chances?
   1. Health lifestyles.
   2. Illness behavior.
   3. Health behavior.
   4. Health promotion.
   5. Premedical.

4. According to the World Health Organization, significant improvements in health in the 19^th century were brought about by what might be called                                                                             methods.
   1. Engineering.
   2. Medical.
   3. Preventative.
   4. Health lifestyles.
   5. Health behavior.

5. According to the World Health Organization, we are currently living in the

                                    era.

1. 1. Engineering.
   2. Medical.
   3. Postmedical.
   4. Hypermedical.
   5. Premedical.

6. Crawford points out, there has been a growing recognition of positive health behaviors, facilitated by:
   1. Mass media.
   2. Word of mouth.
   3. The spread of disease.
   4. Education.
   5. Technology.

7.                               suggested that a person’s social class position is determined exclusively by his or her degree of access to a society’s means of production.
   1. Weber.
   2. Durkheim.
   3. Marx.
   4. Wickrama.
   5. Bourdieu.

8. According to the sociologist Max Weber, lifestyles are based upon a person’s relationship to the means of:
   1. Consumption.
   2. Needs.
   3. Wants.
   4. Production.
   5. All of the above.

9. Lebensführung means                                   , and Lebenschancen means                                               .
   1. Life conduct; lifestyle.
   2. Life chances; lifestyle.
   3. Life conduct; life chances.
   4. Life chances; life conduct.

1. 5. Lifestyle; life conduct.

10.                                  refers to the choices that people have in the lifestyles they wish to adopt.
    1. Life chances.
    2. Life conduct.
    3. Life behaviors.
    4. Agency.
    5. None of the above.

11. Weber maintains that life                               is influenced by life chances.
    1. Realities.
    2. Choices.
    3. Modes.
    4. Demands.
    5. None of the above.

12. Health lifestyles are common to which social class?
    1. Upper classes.
    2. Upper and middle classes.
    3. Middle classes.
    4. Lower classes.
    5. All of the above.

13. Health lifestyles emphasizing exercise, a healthy diet, avoidance of unhealthy practices such as smoking, and so on originated in the:
    1. Working class.
    2. Lower class.
    3. Upper lower class.
    4. Lower middle class.
    5. Upper middle class.

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14. What is a class-based set of durable dispositions to act in particular ways that shape particular facets of health lifestyles?
    1. Life chances.
    2. Norms.

1. 3. Habitus.
   4. Lifestyles.
   5. Life conduct.

15.                                          is the notion that the more distant a person is from economic necessity, the more freedom and time that person has to develop and refine personal tastes in line with a more privileged class status.
    1. Distance from norm.
    2. Distance from normality.
    3. Distance from mean (average).
    4. Distance from poverty.
    5. None of the above.

16. What is NOT a category of social structural variables that have the potential to shape health lifestyles?
    1. Class circumstances.
    2. Age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
    3. Collectivities.
    4. Languages/linguistics.
    5. Living conditions.

17. What is the likely the most powerful influence on lifestyle forms?
    1. Class circumstances.
    2. Age, gender, and race/ethnicity.
    3. Collectivities.
    4. Languages/linguistics.
    5. Living conditions.

18. What are collections of actors linked together through particular relationships, such as kinship, work, religion, and politics?
    1. Guilds.
    2. Collectivities.
    3. Knitting circles.
    4. Social groups.
    5. None of the above.

19. The                                generated by the habitus produce lifestyle practices for individuals that are similar to those of other people in their social class and distinctive from people in other classes, according to Bourdieu.
    1. Expectations.
    2. Practices.
    3. Lifestyles.
    4. Dispositions.
    5. None of the above.

20. Health lifestyles activities typically take place                                     the health care delivery system.
    1. Inside.
    2. Outside.
    3. Beyond.
    4. In conjunction with.
    5. Near.

21. What refers to routine physical examinations, immunizations, prenatal care, dental checkups, screening for heart disease and cancer, and other services intended to ensure good health and to minimize the effects of illness if it occurs?
    1. Routine checkups.
    2. Health behavior.
    3. Preventive care.
    4. Health lifestyles.
    5. None of the above.

22. What is the reason many low-income persons do not have a source of medical care?
    1. Health facilities may not be near.
    2. Costs may not be covered by health insurance.
    3. They may lack health insurance.
    4. B and C only.
    5. All of the above.

23.                                       of preventive care among the poor is common.
    1. Underutilization.
    2. Overutilization.
    3. Utilization.