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NSG 152 Test 1 Questions and Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
Culture
Ans: the patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn,
develop, and share
Provides social structure for daily living
Defines roles and interactions with others and in families and communities
diversity
Ans: the array of differences among individuals, groups, and communities
discrimination
Ans: restriction of justice, rights, privileges of individuals or minority groups; may
occur when dominant groups reinforce their rules to limit opportunities for others
dominant group
Ans: Group has the most authority to control values and sanctions of society
Doesn't have to be the largest group of society
(usually the largest)
minority
Ans: individual or group who are outside of dominant group
Doesn't have to be the largest group of society
A physical or cultural characteristic identifies the people as different than dominant
group
subculture
Ans: group within a culture whose practices or beliefs are distinct from those of the
dominant culture
Group of people who are members of a larger cultural group
Have certain ethnic, occupational, or physical characteristics not common to the
larger culture
Multiculturalism
Ans: many cultures and subcultures coexisting within a given society
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ethnic groups
Ans: individuals with common heritage and common characteristics, including
nationality, language, values, customs
cultural values
Ans: describe preferred ways of behaving or thinking sustained over time and used
to govern a cultural group's actions and decisions
Often determine rules people live by each day
worldview
Ans: how people in a culture perceive ideas and attitudes about the world, other
people, life
Support the culture's overall belief system
Developed to explain meaning of life
cultural groups
Ans: categorized around racial, ethnic, religious, or socially common practice
patterns
Race does not equate with culture
enculturation
Ans: cultural transmission from adults to children
Through language, objects, rituals, customs, institutions, art
assimilation
Ans: process of adapting to and integrating characteristics of dominant culture
acculturation
Ans: accepting the majority group's culture as one's own
culture shock
Ans: The feelings a person experiences when placed in a different culture
May result in psychological discomfort or disturbances
stereotyping
Ans: One assumes that all members of a culture or ethnic group act alike
May be positive or negative
Negative includes racism, ageism, and sexism
NSG 152 Test 1 Questions and Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
Culture
Ans: the patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn,
develop, and share
Provides social structure for daily living
Defines roles and interactions with others and in families and communities
diversity
Ans: the array of differences among individuals, groups, and communities
discrimination
Ans: restriction of justice, rights, privileges of individuals or minority groups; may
occur when dominant groups reinforce their rules to limit opportunities for others
dominant group
Ans: Group has the most authority to control values and sanctions of society
Doesn't have to be the largest group of society
(usually the largest)
minority
Ans: individual or group who are outside of dominant group
Doesn't have to be the largest group of society
A physical or cultural characteristic identifies the people as different than dominant
group
subculture
Ans: group within a culture whose practices or beliefs are distinct from those of the
dominant culture
Group of people who are members of a larger cultural group
Have certain ethnic, occupational, or physical characteristics not common to the
larger culture
Multiculturalism
Ans: many cultures and subcultures coexisting within a given society
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ethnic groups
Ans: individuals with common heritage and common characteristics, including
nationality, language, values, customs
cultural values
Ans: describe preferred ways of behaving or thinking sustained over time and used
to govern a cultural group's actions and decisions
Often determine rules people live by each day
worldview
Ans: how people in a culture perceive ideas and attitudes about the world, other
people, life
Support the culture's overall belief system
Developed to explain meaning of life
cultural groups
Ans: categorized around racial, ethnic, religious, or socially common practice
patterns
Race does not equate with culture
enculturation
Ans: cultural transmission from adults to children
Through language, objects, rituals, customs, institutions, art
assimilation
Ans: process of adapting to and integrating characteristics of dominant culture
acculturation
Ans: accepting the majority group's culture as one's own
culture shock
Ans: The feelings a person experiences when placed in a different culture
May result in psychological discomfort or disturbances
stereotyping
Ans: One assumes that all members of a culture or ethnic group act alike
May be positive or negative
Negative includes racism, ageism, and sexism
