Culture

Question 1

Because cultural liaisons work closely with physicians and are advocates for patients, which phenomenon are cultural liaisons most likely to experience?

Answer 1

Role strain because of their collegiality with physicians and their responsibility to patients.

Role strain is the tension that results from competing demands within the context of a single role. As applied to the question, the tension that the cultural liaison experiences is between different responsibilities within the same occupational role.

Question 2

If tension existed between different roles that a single individual held it would be considered?

Answer 2

Role conflict

Question 3

Define Ethnocentrism

Answer 3

Ethnocentrism is the act of judging another culture based on preconceptions that are found in the values and standards of one’s own culture