Identify the deficiency theories and discuss how they explain the ...

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Identify the deficiency theories and discuss how they explain the systematic disadvantaging of certain sectors of the population. Add the sociological criticisms of these theories.
 
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Question 2

Discuss how health disparities are affected by social conditions such as race.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Feedback: Deficiency theories propose that some groups are disadvantaged because, when compared with the majority, they are deficient in some important way, either biologically (genetically inferior) or culturally. Critics include proponents of bias theories, who say that disadvantaged groups are victims of the prejudices against them held by the dominant group. Structural discrimination theorist say that deficiency theories and bias theories are both wrong, because they emphasize the individual over the social organization. They make a distinction between individual racism (related to prejudice and individual behavior that harms other individuals or their property) and institutional racism (a complex pattern of racial advantage built into the structure of society; a system of power and privilege that advantages some groups over others).

Answer to Question 2

Feedback: Research finds that health disparities are affected by social conditions. On virtually every measure of health, racialethnic minorities are disadvantaged. Environmental racism is the disproportionate exposure of some racial groups to environmental toxic substances. Racial minorities are more likely than other groups to live near hazardous waste facilities. Those living in high opportunity neighborhoods, which are typically White, can expect to live up to 20 years longer than residents of a low opportunity neighborhood in the same city.