Race, Ethnicity and Culture
Class, SES, and Family Diversity
Poverty, Racism and Family Life
Acculturation and Family Diversity
Family Strategies
100
The term most typically used to refer to categories of individuals who share common inborn biological traits.
What is race?
100
This word is used to describe discrete categories of people who are similar in their levels of education, income, occupational status, housing and lineage.
What is social class?
100
The percentage of American families who were considered poor (income level below the poverty line) in 2008.
What is 10%?
100
A process of adaptation that involves learning about a new culture and deciding which aspects of the culture of origin are to be retained or sacrificed.
What is acculturation?
100
This particular group places a very strong emphasis on preserving their heritage and connection to previous generations by ensuring that marriage and children play a central role in family life.
Who are people of the Jewish faith?
200
This is the largest minority racial group in the United States.
What is Latino (Hispanic)?
200
This is primarily defined by education, income level, and occupational status of the family.
What is socioeconomic status?
200
Defined as the least amount of income needed to purchase minimally adequate amount of basic goods such as food, clothing and shelter throughout the year.
What is the poverty line?
200
Although the process of acculturation is ongoing, discontinuities may be expected due to family relocation, economic and social constraints, and these.
What is formation or disruption of important relationships (or traumatic experiences)?
200
Expressing feelings or admitting a problem, especially to other family members, results in feelings of shame and embarrassment in what culture?
What is the Irish culture?
300
These are the two differing perspectives used to better understand the ethnic and cultural diversity of families.
What are the multidimensional perspective and the culture-specific perspective?
300
Parents with this type of socioeconomic status tend to have greater expectations for their children's academic performance and talk to their children more often about school.
What is high SES?
300
This has been shown to lead to high rates of infant mortality, poor nutrition, and mental illness.
What is poverty?
300
The rate at which the acculturation process occurs is influenced by many factors. Name two of these.
What is migration experience, generational status, degree of assimilation into the dominant culture, likelihood of returning to the homeland, ongoing contact with the culture of origin, and length of time within the host culture?
300
This culture holds family as the highest source of influence in their lives.
What is the Italian culture?
400
This refers to a group that shares a common identity based upon nonbiological traits such as shared ancestry, culture, history, language and beliefs.
What is ethnicity?
400
Mothers from this type of SES tend to rate proper demeanor, which includes obedience, respect and quietness as being more important.
What is lower?
400
A circular feedback process which threatens self-esteem and reinforces problematic responses in communities, families and individuals.
What is victim system?
400
The first two adjustment patterns to the process of immigration.
What are 1)escaping from the immigrant group and becoming as much like the dominant group in as short a time as possible and 2) withdrawing into the old culture and resisting the new way of life?
400
This influences how boundaries with outsiders and social support is structured in African American families.
What is racism?
500
This is defined as "highly variable systems of meanings" which are "learned and shared by people or an identifiable segment of the population".
What is culture?
500
Culturally diverse family systems are further diversified by this.
What is socioeconomic status?
500
Marital stress, dissatisfaction, divorce and this are all more likely among those in poverty.
What is domestic violence?
500
"Trying to build a cultural bridge between the culture of origin and the new culture" is the definition of what?
What is the third adjustment pattern to the process of immigration?
500
In this culture, your role in the family is influenced by age, gender and birth order. Education is also highly valued.
What is the Asian culture?
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