Lesson 4.2.3.5
4.2.3.5 Medicine, the health professions and the health industry Quiz: AQA Sociology, Unit 2
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Which term was used by Eliot Freidson to describe medical control over health work?
- Deskilling
- Medicalisation
- Professional dominance
- Occupational closure
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What key feature distinguishes a profession from a standard occupation in sociology?
- Self-regulation
- Union membership
- Hourly wages
- Manual labour
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Which concept describes how higher-status doctors dominate lower-status, predominantly female nurses?
- Clinical autonomy
- Gendered hierarchy
- Medical gaze
- Sick role
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What primary motive defines the commercial health industry in sociological analysis?
- Free provision
- Altruistic care
- Profit generation
- Universal access
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Why do sociologists criticise global pharmaceutical companies regarding research priorities?
- Equal global access
- Over-funding poor nations
- Free treatment distribution
- Profit-driven research
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What does 'brain drain' mean in the context of the global healthcare workforce?
- Retirement of doctors
- Loss of memory
- Medical training reform
- Migration of professionals
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Which sociologist argued American medicine gained authority through market control and expertise?
- Michel Foucault
- Talcott Parsons
- Paul Starr
- Ivan Illich
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Which process reduces a healthcare worker's autonomy by breaking tasks into routine steps?
- Deskilling
- Medicalisation
- Deprivatisation
- Professionalisation
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What major barrier prevents many female doctors from reaching senior medical roles?
- Gendered career barriers
- Lower qualification rates
- Legal employment bans
- Lack of ambition
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Which perspective critically examines how private healthcare companies profit from selling diagnostic technology?
- Marxism
- Symbolic interactionism
- Postmodernism
- Functionalism
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Which type of authority is based on specialised medical knowledge and official qualifications?
- Coercive authority
- Traditional authority
- Charismatic authority
- Professional authority
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What is a primary reason for the increased demand for private healthcare?
- Public waiting times
- Decreased health needs
- Lower private costs
- Banning public care
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According to Ivan Illich, what major problem is caused by expanding medical power?
- Iatrogenic harm
- Improved self-care
- Reduced medical costs
- Universal healing
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What term describes turning health products and services into consumer goods for profit?
- Commercialisation
- Deinstitutionalisation
- Medicalisation
- Deprofessionalisation
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What primary motivation shapes pharmaceutical research priorities according to sociologists?
- Altruistic welfare
- Universal healthcare
- Public service
- Profit generation
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What term describes patients travelling abroad to receive medical care?
- Primary care
- Medical tourism
- Medicalisation
- Cultural capital
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What is a major sociological concern regarding private healthcare growth?
- Equal access
- Increased health inequality
- Lower waiting times
- Reduced drug prices
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According to sociologists, what defines medical definitions of illness besides scientific knowledge?
- Biological inevitability
- Professional interests
- Genetic determinism
- Universal consensus
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What is the main risk of paying private healthcare providers per procedure?
- Undertreatment
- Reduced profits
- Equal access
- Overtreatment
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What term describes restricting access to an occupation using qualifications and licences?
- Professional closure
- Deprofessionalisation
- Medicalisation
- Social mobility
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