Assessing Culture Flashcards
(56 cards)
refers to “deviations from a biomedical norm”
disease
refers to “the lived experience of culturally constructed categories”
illness
refers to “patients’ roles.”
sickness
The term ??? has been used in psychology for decades to describe acculturation or adaptation to a new cultural environment
acculturative stress
may be defined as a shared system of values, beliefs, and learned patterns of behavior
Culture
culture defines (2)
values & norms
(learned beliefs about what is held to be good or bad)
values
(learned behaviors that are perceived to be appropriate or inappropriate)
norms
The circumstance when a person gives up the traits of their culture of origin as a result of context with another culture, to variable degrees.
Acculturation
The gradual adoption and incorporation of characteristics of the prevailing culture.
Assimilation
The coexistence of a difference in behavior, traditions, and customs—in short, a diversity of cultures, often resulting from cross-border population flows; perhaps better referred to as cultural pluralism
Cultural diversity
The intrusive application of the majority group’s cultural view upon individuals and families
Cultural imposition
The belief that the behaviors and practices of people should be judged only from the context of their cultural system.
Cultural relativism
The totality of socially transmitted behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a population
Culture
A natural conscious and unconscious conditioning process of learning accepted cultural norms, values, and roles in society and achieving competence in one’s culture through socialization.
Enculturation
A socially, culturally, and politically constructed group that holds in common a set of characteristics not shared by others with whom members of the group come into contact
Ethnicity
The universal tendency of humans to think their ways of thinking, acting, and believing are the only right, proper, and natural ways.
Ethnocentrism
An oversimplified conception, opinion, or belief about an aspect of an individual or group.
Stereotyping
A group of people with a culture that differentiates them from the larger culture of which they are a part.
Subculture
The way individuals or groups of people look at the universe to form basic assumptions and values about their lives and the world around them; includes cosmology, relationships with nature, moral and ethical reasoning, social relationships, magicoreligious beliefs, and aesthetics.
Worldview
The perception that one’s worldview is the only acceptable truth, and that one’s beliefs, values, and sanctioned behaviors are superior to all others, is called ???
ethnocentrism
or a person’s ethnic identity, exists when the person identifies with a “socially, culturally, and politically constructed group of individuals that holds a common set of characteristics not shared by others with whom its members come in
contact”
Ethnicity
there are five constructs in the cultural competence process:
cultural awareness,
cultural skill,
cultural knowledge,
cultural encounters,
cultural desire.
Use the ASKED mnemonic to examine your cultural competence
(awareness, skill, knowledge, encounters, and desire)
