SOCY105 1 Exam II Study Guide 1. Why is there variation in cost of drugs in US? Why is there variation in the cost US citizens pay compared to citizens are other countries? 2. What are the explanations for the increase in drug sales? 3. What is the role of PBM (prescription benefits managers)? 4. What is the role of patents in maintaining higher drug prices? 5. Why is the pharmaceutical industry referred to as "recession proof?" 6. Describe the ways in which drugs are marketed (advertising,etc). how does this drive up the costs? 7. What is the role of CRO's in clinical trials? Why should the public be concerned? 8. How do "direct-to customer" adds capitalize on fear? 9. What are the problems with the pharmaceutical industry being "profit driven?" 10. What are the principles of capitalism? Are they being violated by the treatment of the drug industry? 11. Does "concentration of wealth and power" influence the public's access to life saving drugs? Explain 12. What do we know about the real costs of R&D in the pharmaceutical industry? 13. What kinds of evidence is there of sex, race discrimination in US? 14. What kinds of evidence is there of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation? 15. What has the role of Wall Street been in driving up the cost of health care costs in US? 16. Describe the current state of US health care 17. What are the remedies that Barton, Steele suggest to address the current health care crisis? What are the challenges to making these changes? 18. How is health care tied to employment a problem? Explain.
Depending on what type of employment one has, the dual market labor (primary, secondary)
19. Why is health care in the US so expensive?
-Little on prevention -fee for service -aging population
20. Are we getting the most for our health care dollars? (life expectancy, health indicators?) How do we compare to other industrialized countries?
No, Other countries life expectancy is higher than US. Health indicators is our social class, employment.
21. Is health good randomly distributed?
No, the best predictable of health is social class. The kind of health care one can afford, the type of employment one has (primaryoffer benefits, secondary-little or none)
2 22. Given what we know is necessary to maintaining good health, what concerns are suggested by the previous section (hunger, poverty, homelessness, stress, household income distribution)? 23. What are the manifest and latent functions of Hatch-Waxman Act? 24. Lorber (Social Construction of Gender) quotes J. Butler "...not biology but culture is destiny." What does that mean? 25. What is the distinction betw sex, sex categorization, and gender? Answer in terms 26. How is homophobia used to reinforce gender inequality? 27. What does the "Crash" suggest about race?
Scapegoating their anger, blaming others of their problems. Economics Fear Emotions Misunderstanding Power of stereotypes Feminist Theory: changing system is risky
28. What are the pros and cons of legalizing same sex marriage? 29. Describe some of the similarities in the various forms of discrimination (class, race, gender, sexuality) 30. How do the terms heter, homo relational contribute to our understanding of sexual orientation? 31. In the absence of change, what should we expect in the future with regard to health care industry? 32. "Still Killing Us Softly" illustrate 3 terms related to dominance, subordination.
Non-verbal communication: Ads are powerful, hard to control, more accurate than verbal. Ads create insecurity, reinforcing stereotypes, values (materialistic, assumptions) Manifest/latent functions? Stereotypes of female: passive, clich Self-fulfiling stereotypes: according to the media, ads women are viewed as an object, not human. Females begin to see themselves as lower therefore, they expect to be treated lower than the dominant group Symbolic annihilation: since females are defined as subordinate group, they cannot control media. "lack degree of articulation, media expression, legitimacy of dominant group.