The functionalist perspective on deviance:
A) Is based on the concept that what is regarded as deviant behavior by one person or social group may not be so regarded by other persons or social groups.
B) Relies on the ideas of what is good and what is bad to define illness, but also incorporates biological components.
C) Stresses societal-level processes, systems, equilibrium, and interrelationships, representing a homeostatic approach to deviance.
D) Purely focuses on health and well-being and disregards other forms of deviance, such as criminality.
E) None of the above.
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Q12: A person may desire to retain the
Q13: The traditional identifying criteria for disease do
Q14: _ is where deviants are exempted permanently
Q15: Processes such as crime and mental illness
Q16: Parsons's concept of the sick role is
Q18: Medicalization is:
A) The process where an individual
Q19: The physician exercises leverage over the patient
Q20: _ is where the deviants are temporarily
Q21: Sociologists have typically viewed sickness as a
Q22: Conformity to prevailing norms is generally punished
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