Chapter+14-+Education,+Health,+and+Medicine

__ Education __ - the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values -When Jake passed elementary school and was to go off to middle school, his father scared him so much by telling him stories of how he got bullied that Jake pretended to go to school and skipped the first day of school. So Alan learned many things in school that he was suppose to plus how to avoid getting beat up. __ Functional illiteracy __ - a lack of the reading and writing skills needed for everyday living -Jake is a functional illiterate at the fact he went to summer school every year and still couldn’t pass elementary school. According to him the only reason they passed him was the teachers got so sick of him they couldn’t handle him anymore. __ Medicine __ - the social institution that focuses on fighting disease and improving health -Alan is a chiropractor which doesn’t necessarily fight disease but it focuses on improving health. Alan says he is a doctor, but Charlie makes sure to remind him many times he is only a chiropractor.

__ Schooling: __ formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers - Jake attends elementary school on a daily basis to get the general knowledge he will need to move on and succeed at higher levels. __ Tracking: __ assigning students to different types of educational programs - Jake is always put in summer school, because throughout the school year he can’t comprehend material like most of the others are able to. __ Sick role: __ patterns of behavior defined as appropriate for people who are ill - Charlie could be considered ill because he is an alcoholic, so the behavior he shows by not even coming home some nights is acceptable to the people he is around. 