Definitions Part 1

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Shared patterns of values and learned behaviours transmitted socially overtime that distinguish the members of one group from another

Question 2

Subculture

Answer 2

Is a group of persons within a larger culture of the same age Socio economic level ethnic origin education or occupation or with the same goals who have a unique identity but are related to the total culture in certain ways

Question 3

Ethnic

Answer 3

Pertains to a group of people distinguished from other people by race or nationality that possesses common physical and mental traits as a result of hereditary cultural traditions language or speech customs and common history

Question 4

Ethnography

Answer 4

a detailed description of a single culture or context based on extensive observation.

Question 5

Gene

Answer 5

A complex chemical unit of a chromosome that control or influence inherited traits. (a segment on a chromo that controls a specific characteristic)

Question 6

Genotype

Answer 6

an individual’s unique genetic blueprint

Question 7

Phenotype

Answer 7

an individual’s whole set of observable characteristics

Question 8

Dominate Recessive Pattern/Trait

Answer 8

a pattern of inheritance in which a single dominant gene influences a persons phenotype but to recessive genes are necessary to produce an associated trait

Question 9

Polygenetic inhereitance

Answer 9

pattern of inheritance in which many genes influence a trait

Question 10

Multifactorial Inheritance

Answer 10

pattern of inheritance affected by both genes and the environment

Question 11

Epigenome

Answer 11

The sum total of inherited and acquired molecular modifications to the genome that leads to changes in gene regulation

Question 12

Cultural competence

Answer 12

Is the ability of a healthcare provider agency or system to respond to the unique trends of a population who is cultures are different from that of main stream or dominant society

Question 13

Ethnicity

Answer 13

refers to identity with a particular racial, national, or cultural group and observance of that group’s customs, beliefs, and language.

Question 14

Mores

Answer 14

morally binding attitudes or folkways (Practices, customs, or beliefs shared by the members of a group as part of their common culture) of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group.

Question 15

Customs

Answer 15

long-established practices having the force of unwritten laws.

Question 16

Acculturation

Answer 16

the process of change occurring as a result of contact between cultural groups (a minority group’s adoption of the larger groups cultural mores).

Question 17

Ethnocentrism

Answer 17

behaviour based on the belief that one’s own culture is superior, and, the tendency to evaluate other culture’s through the filter of one’s own culture, resulting in evaluating other cultures less favourably than one’s own culture.

Question 18

Culture shock

Answer 18

on exposure to another culture, this is: feelings of bewilderment, confusion, disorganization, frustration and stupidity, and the inability to adapt to differences , word meanings, activities, use of time, and customs that are part of a culture different from one’s own.

Question 19

Pluralistic society

Answer 19

a form of society in which members of minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions [Canada is viewed as an example].