C1: Sociocultural Aspects of MCN

Question 1

view of the world and a set of traditions that a specific social group uses and transmits to the next generation.

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

are preferred ways of acting based on those traditions.

Answer 2

Cultural values

Question 3

refers to the cultural group into which a person was born, although the term is sometimes used in a narrower context to mean only race. r

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Ethnicity

Question 4

refers to a category of people who share a socially recognized physical characteristic. The term is rarely used today as the research on the human genome shows no basic differences in structure among people.

Answer 4

Race

Question 5

means there is a mixture or variety of lifestyles and beliefs in a population

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Diversity

Question 6

means expecting a person to act in a characteristic way without regard to his or her individual traits. It is generally derogatory in nature.

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Stereotyping

Question 7

refers to the loss of ethnic traditions in this way.

Answer 7

Acculturation

Question 8

means that people have adopted the values of the dominant culture.

Answer 8

Cultural assimilation

Question 9

belief that one’s own culture is superior to all others is referred to as

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ethnocentrism.

Question 10

believing that some people are less than others based on their physical or cultural traits

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prejudice

Question 11

making everyone fit the same cultural pattern and excluding of those who don’t fit

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cultural destructiveness

Question 12

Do not see or believe there are cultural differences among people

Answer 12

cultural blindness