Deck 6: Social, Cultural, and Environmental Theories Part II

Question 1

In social linguistics, which concept is commonly understood as a social configuration or setting in which speech styles and underlying knowledge are shared enough to sustain distinct communication patterns?

A) Speech society
B) Speech community
C) Speech culture
D) Speech congregation

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is a branch of communications theory that deals with meaning-making, the use of signs and symbols?

A) Semiotics
B) Symbiotics
C) Rhetoric
D) Semantics

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Public health is by nature activist, and which of the following is one category of approaches where that is very evident?

A) Community mobilization
B) Organizational development
C) Dissemination science
D) Communications theory

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Community change is important because many of the conditions that are conducive to or a barrier to health are which of the following?

A) Ecological
B) Sociological
C) Psychological
D) Anthropological

Question 5

Essentially, which of the following is both a philosophy and an approach to organizational change that views organizations as systems of human beings?

A) Community mobilization
B) Organizational development
C) Dissemination science
D) Communications theory

Question 6

Which of the following refers to a basic, underlying set of beliefs that are shared to one degree or another by most people in a cultural group and that guide much of what we understand as healthy versus unhealthy behavior?

A) Biomedical system
B) Ethnomedical system
C) Sociomedical system
D) Anthromedical system

Question 7

The whole enterprise of encoding something as gossip aims to utilize the medium of a peer group or community to send part of the message.

Question 8

Just like in political campaigns, the use of media and communications in public health aims to affect the agenda of what people are concerned about in order to set the stage for or to prompt action.

Question 9

There will always be a political-economic context that has an effect on what people do and what they can or cannot do.

Question 10

Health promotion, disease prevention, and health care are all accomplished primarily through community mobilization.