To call AIDS a moral problem is to locate its cause in the goodness or badness of human action and to suggest that a solution depends on changing evil ways. To call it a medical problem is to locate its cause in the biological workings of the mind or body and to suggest that a solution rests with a drug, a vaccine, or surgery. This contrast in perspective shows
a. Labels are important because they tend to evoke a particular cause and a particular solution.
b. the unintended harm that results when AIDS is defined as a medical problem.
c. that there is no right way to talk about AIDS.
d. that it is difficult to generate profiles describing why people have AIDS.
Question 2
Durkheim argued that the ritual of identifying and exposing a wrongdoing is an emotional experience that gives a sense of order to the community. The idea suggests
a. it is possible for a society to be entirely free of deviance.
b. behavior that is unthinkable when an individual is acting on his or her own may be executed without hesitation when carried out under orders.
c. when people become criminals, they do so because of contacts with criminal patterns and because of isolation from non-criminal patterns.
d. a group that went too long without noticing deviance would lose its identity.
