CLASSWORK - Ch. 10 Cultural Diversity - Key Terms
The process of learning the beliefs and behaviors of a dominant culture and assuming some of its characteristics.
Acculturation
Differences among people based on cultural, ethnic, and racial factors.
Cultural diversity
Care that provides for the well-being of the whole person and meets not only physical needs, but also social, emotional, and mental needs.
Holistic care
Often called territorial space; describes the distance people require to feel comfortable while interacting with others.
Personal space
The ability to recognize and appreciate the personal characteristics of others.
Sensitivity
An individual who believes that the existence of a God cannot be proved or disproved.
Agnostic
The values, beliefs, attitudes, languages, symbols, rituals, behaviors, and customs unique to a particular group of people and passed from one generation to the next.
Culture
A family structure in which the mother or oldest female is the authority figure.
Matriarchal
An individual who believes in and worships many gods.
Polytheist
The beliefs individuals have about themselves, their connections to others, and their relationship with a higher power.
Spirituality
A person who does not believe in any deity or higher power.
Atheist
A classification of people based on national origin and/or culture.
Ethnicity
An individual who believes in the existence of only one God.
Monotheist
To "prejudge"; a strong feeling or belief about a person or subject that is formed without reviewing facts or information.
Prejudice
Occurs when an assumption is made that everyone in a particular group is the same; "labeling" an individual.
Stereotyping
A preference that inhibits impartial judgment.
Bias
The belief that one's own cultural values are better than the cultural values of others.
Ethnocentric
A family unit that usually consists of one or two parents and a child or children.
Nuclear family
A classification of people based on physical or biological characteristics such as skin, hair, and eye color, facial features, blood type, and bone structure.
Race
A field of nursing or healthcare focused on comparative cultural care values, beliefs, and practices to provide culture-specific or culture-universal health care.
Transcultural health care
The absorption of many cultures into a dominant culture; it requires newly arrived groups to alter their unique beliefs and adopt the ways of the dominant culture.
Cultural assimilation
A family structure that includes the nuclear family plus grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Extended family
A family structure in which the father or oldest male is the authority figure.
Patriarchal
An organized system of belief in a superhuman power or higher power.
Religion