NCM 120 Module 6: Social Organization and Culturally Competent Care

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the NCM 120 lecture transcript on social organization, cultural behavior, family types, and religious implications in healthcare.

Enculturation

Also referred to as socialization, it is the process of acquiring knowledge and internalizing values through which most people achieve competence in their own culture.

Culture-bound Syndromes

Diseases that seem to be specific to a single culture or a group of related cultures, existing as localized, folk, diagnostic categories that frame coherent meanings for sets of experiences.

Ethnocentrism

Applying one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of using the standards of the particular culture involved.

Ethnic Collectivity

A group whose members share a bond that includes common origins, a sense of identity, and a shared standard for behavior.

Bicultural

Describing 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 each successive generation along with a sense of identity, encompassing more than biological identification.

Race

A breeding population that primarily mates within itself.

Biracial

Describing an individual who crosses two racial and cultural groups.

Minority

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

Stereotyping

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

Yin

In traditional Chinese belief, the aspect representing the dark, cold, wet, passive, weak, feminine side of humankind.

Traditional Nuclear Family

A family structure consisting of one man and one woman of the same race, religion, and age who are of sound mind and body, marry during their early or middle twenties, remain faithful for life, raise their own children, retire, and die.

Nuclear Dyad Family

A family structure consisting of one generation made up 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, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers, sisters, and in-laws.

Alternative Family

A family structure consisting of adults of a single generation or a combination of adults and children living together without the social sanction of marriage, such as communal arrangements or love relationships.

Single-Parent Family

A family structure consisting of two generations made up of a mother or a father and children by birth or adoption.

Reconstituted or Blended Family

A family formed by put-together parts of previously existing families with the intention of forming a new nuclear family.

Filial Piety

A cultural principle supported by Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity in Asian and Pacific Island cultures where the family assumes decision-making roles, and terminating treatment for a parent can be equated with ancestor murder.

Church Type Structure

A broadly based religious structure representing the normative spiritual values of a society that most people adhere to by virtue of membership, generally forming a comprehensive system without extremely rigorous demands.

Withdrawal Group

A religious structure expressing the beliefs of those for whom personal commitment and experience are more important than family and community functions of religion, often represented by sects like the Amish or Jehovah's Witnesses.

Homologous Blood Transfusion

Blood obtained from a blood bank or donors, or precollected and stored whole blood or packed cells, which Jehovah's Witnesses strictly refuse based on scripture.

Five Pillars of Islam

The core tenets of Islamic life serving as a template for worship and daily living, comprising Shahada (Faith), Salah (Prayer), Sawm (Fasting), Zakat (Almsgiving), and Hajj (Pilgrimage).

Hijab

The practice and principle of modesty taught to Muslim girls as they grow up, often expressed through their manner of dress.