DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (Sociology) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2016.
SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — × 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following in about 150 words each.
1. Write short note on sociology of health
2. Explain the interaction of mind, body and society?
3. Discuss about the attitudes and beliefs towards ill health
and treatment?
4. Write short note on Models of seeking medical care?
5. Write a brief essay on other health practitioner?
6. Write a note on ''Health right is a right or privilege''.
7. Discuss about the reproductive and child health care?
8. Put forth the relevance of in a changing society.
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 700 words each.
9. Give detailed an account on social epidemiology
measures.
10. Illustrate the various attitudes and beliefs towards ill
health and treatment.
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11. Discuss in details about socio demographic variables in
the process of seeking medical care.
12. Enumerate illness as deviance.
13. Elucidate about the reproductive and child health.
14. Critically analyses the role physician in a changing
society.
15. Evaluate the role of sociologist in the field of Psychiatric
and Tuberculosis.