NURS307 Chapter Notes -Acculturation, Pharmacology, Eye Contact
Document Summary
Ethnic culture has 4 basic characteristics: learned from birth through language and socialization, shared by members of the same cultural group internal sense and external perception of distinctiveness. Influenced by specific conditions related to environmental and technical factors and to the availability of resources: dynamic and ever-changing. Subculture: groups that function within a larger cultural group: ethnicity, religion, occupation, shared disability or illness, age, gender, sexual orientation, geographic location, ethnicity share a social and cultural heritage. Cultural pluralism: promote respect for the right of others to have different beliefs, values, behaviours, and ways of life. Cultural relativism foster awareness and appreciation of cultural differences, reject assumptions of superiority of one culture and adverts ethnocentrism. Enculturation: socialization into one"s primary culture during childhood. Acculturation: adapting to and adopting characteristics of a new culture. Assimilation: minority group gradually adopts the attitudes and customs of the mainstream culture. Multiculturalism: many cultures co-exist in society and maintain their cultural differences.
