Module 6: Culturally Appropriate and Competent Care Nursing Approaches with Social Organization

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and concepts related to social organization, cultural behavior, family structures, and religious influences on healthcare in Transcultural Nursing.

Enculturation

The process of socialization through which an individual acquires knowledge and internalizes values to achieve competence in their own culture.

Culture-bound Syndromes

Localized, folk diagnostic categories that frame coherent meanings for sets of experiences and refer to diseases specific to a single culture or group of related cultures.

Ethnocentrism

The practice of applying one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people.

Ethnic Collectivity

A group whose members share a bond including common origins, a sense of identity, and a shared standard for behavior acquired from cultural norms.

Bicultural

Refers to a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values, acquiring skills to function in both a minority and a majority culture.

Ethnicity

Refers to groups whose members share a common social and cultural heritage passed on to successive generations and a shared sense of identity.

Race

A biological breeding population that primarily mates within itself.

Biracial

Describing an individual who crosses two distinct racial and cultural groups.

Minority

A racial, religious, or occupational group that constitutes less than a numerical majority of the population, often designated due to a lack of power or assumed inferior traits.

Stereotyping

The assumption that all people in a similar cultural, racial, or ethnic group are alike and share identical values and beliefs.

Traditional Nuclear Family

A family structure consisting of one man and one woman of the same race, religion, and age who marry, remain faithful for life, and raise their own children.

Nuclear Dyad Family

A single-generation family structure consisting of a married couple without children.

Extended Family

A multigenerational family structure that includes all relatives by birth, marriage, or adoption, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Alternative Family

A family structure consisting of adults of a single generation or adults with children living together without the social sanction of marriage, such as communal groups or cohabiting couples.

Single-Parent Family

A two-generation family structure consisting of a mother or a father and children by birth or adoption.

Reconstituted Family

Also known as a blended family, a unit formed by put-together parts of previously existing families to form a new nuclear family.

Filial Piety

A cultural value in Asian and Pacific Island traditions supported by Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity, emphasizing respect and family decision-making that honors parents and ancestors.

Church Type Religious Structure

A broadly based religious system representing the normative spiritual values of a society, allowing individual variations without making extremely rigorous demands on members.

Withdrawal Group Religious Structure

A religious structure (or sect) where personal commitment and experience are prioritized over family and community functions, defining members by a distinct, unbending choice separate from the majority faith.

Jehovah's Witnesses Transfusion Doctrine

The belief that blood represents life and is sacred to God, leading members to refuse homologous blood transfusions as well as precollected self-stored blood.

Seventh-Day Adventist Health Doctrine

The teaching that the body is a temple of God, requiring members to avoid meat, shellfish, caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and non-emergency medical procedures during their Sabbath from Friday dusk to Saturday dusk.

Five Pillars of Islam

The fundamental tenets of Islamic life comprising Shahada (faith), Salah (prayer), Sawm (fasting), Zakat (almsgiving), and Hajj (pilgrimage).

Hijab

The practice and garment symbolizing modesty taught to Muslim women as part of their cultural and religious upbringing.