Nursing PNU 116 Exam 2 Questions And 100%
Correct Answers
Culture - ANSWER ❖Shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations
❖Provides social structure for daily living
❖Defines roles and interactions with others and in families and communities
❖Apparent in the attitudes and institutions unique to the culture
Subculture - ANSWER ❖Large group of people who are members of a larger cultural
group
❖Members have certain ethnic, occupational, or physical characteristics not common
to the larger culture.
Dominant group- ANSWER o Group has the most authority to control values and
sanctions of society
Minority group- ANSWER o A physical or cultural characteristic identifies the people as
different from dominant group.
Cultural assimilation- ANSWER o Minorities living within a dominant group lose the
characteristics that made them different.
o Values replaced by those of dominant culture
Culture shock - ANSWER o The feelings a person experiences when placed in a different
culture
o May result in psychological discomfort or disturbances
, Ethnicity - ANSWER ❖Sense of identification with a collective cultural group
❖Largely based on group's common heritage
❖One can belong to an ethnic group through birth or adoption of characteristics of that
group.
❖Groups share unique cultural and social beliefs and behavior patterns.
❖Mainly learned through daily life among family and friends in the community.
Race - ANSWER ❖Usually based upon distinctive features
oSkin color, body size, facial structure, texture of hair
Ex: White, Asian, Black
Stereotyping - ANSWER ❖Believe that all people within a culture or ethnicity behave the
same
❖Can be positive or negative
oNegative forms include racism, ageism, sexism
Cultural imposition - ANSWER oAssumption that everyone should be like the majority
mind set
Cultural blindness - ANSWER o Ignores differences and proceeds as if they did not exist
Ethnocentrism - ANSWER ❖Belief that one's ideas, beliefs, and practice are the best or
superior, or are most preferred to those of others
Law - ANSWER oStandard or rule of conduct established and enforced by government
Designed to protect the rights of the public
Litigation - ANSWER process of bringing and trying a lawsuit
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