As You Sit in the Waiting Room of a Doctor's

question 22

Multiple Choice

As you sit in the waiting room of a doctor's office leafing through a magazine, you see a letter to the editor about world hunger. In it, the author takes issue with a statement made in a previous issue that stated, "…and thus, hunger worsens poverty...." The letter writer claims that this statement is completely unfounded and has no reasoning behind it. Does hunger worsen poverty?

• A)Yes, but it can be corrected with appropriate access to reproductive health care.
• B)No; if hungry people work hard enough they can work to get themselves out of poverty.
• C)Yes, it propagates poverty by increasing the death rate and leaving many families as single-parent households.
• D)Yes, hunger makes poverty worse by robbing a person of the good health and the physical and mental energy needed to be active and productive.
• E)Sometimes, but only when unemployment is high and jobs are scarce.

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Definitions:

Interpersonal Scripts

Created when individuals use the general sexual guidelines they have learned from cultural scripts and adapt them to specific social situations.

Homophobia

The irrational fear, dislike, hatred, intolerance, and ignorance toward and the marginalization of non-heterosexuals.

Heterosexism

Heterosexism is the discrimination or prejudice against homosexuals on the assumption that heterosexuality is the norm, often manifesting in societal attitudes, institutional policies, and practices.

Heteronormativity

Examines the ways in which heterosexuality is produced as a natural, unproblematic, taken-for-granted phenomenon that is maintained and reinforced through the everyday actions of individuals and through dominant social institutions.