Sociocultural Variable

Answer 1

Adolescent Family

Question 2

The process by which an individual develops a new cultural identity and becomes like the members of the dominant culture

Answer 2

Assimilation

Answer 3

Blended Family

Answer 4

Cohabiting Family

Question 5

Within the delivered care the nurse understands and attends to the total context of the client’s situation and uses a complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills

Answer 5

Culturally competent

Question 6

Care that demonstrates basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting

Answer 6

Culturally Sensitive

Question 7

A worldview and set of traditions used and transmitted from generation to generation by a particular group; includes related attitudes and institutions

Answer 7

Culture

Question 8

A disorder that occurs in response to transition from one cultural setting to another.

State of being disoriented or unable to respond to a different cultural environment because of its strangeness, unfamiliarity, or incompatibility to perceptions and expectations.

Answer 8

Culture Shock

Answer 9

Ethnicity

Question 10

The belief that one’s own culture or way of life is better than that of others

Answer 10

Ethnocentricism

Question 11

The differential treatment of individuals or groups

Answer 11

Discrimination

Question 12

Family that includes the relatives of the nuclear family

(e.g., grandparents, aunts, uncles)

Answer 12

Extended Family

Question 13

The basic unit of society that consists of those individuals, male or female, youth or adult, legally or not legally related, genetically or not genetically related, who are considered by others to represent their significant individuals

Answer 13

Family

Answer 14

Minority Groups

Question 15

A family of parents and their offspring

Answer 15

Nuclear Family

Question 16

A negative belief or preference that is generalized about a group and that leads to “prejudgment”

Answer 16

Prejudice

Answer 17

Single Parent Family

Question 18

Assuming that all members of a culture or ethnic group are alike

Answer 18

Stereotyping

Question 19

Usually composed of people who have a distinct identity and yet are related to a larger cultural group

Answer 19

Subculture

Answer 20

Traditional Family

Question 21

Providing care within the differences and similarities of the beliefs, values, and patterns of cultures

Answer 21

Transcultural Nursing

Answer 22

Two-Career Family

Question 23

People who have dual patterns of identification and cross two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values

Answer 23

Biculture