CHAPTER 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY ALL EXAM REVISION
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (ALREADY GRADED A+) (2024
UPDATE) 100%
Cultural diversity - ANSWER- People of varying cultures, racial, ethnic origin, religion,
language, size, gender, age, socioeconomic status, location, etc.
Culture - ANSWER- Shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations that
provides social structure for daily living.
-Provides social structure for daily living
-Defines roles and interactions w/ others
Subcultures - ANSWER- Large group of people who are members of an even larger cultural
group, but who have certain ethnic, occupational, or physical characteristics that are not common
to the larger subculture
Example: nursing is a subculture of the larger healthcare system culture
Dominant group - ANSWER- Group has the most authority to control values and sanctions of
society
(usually, but not always the largest group)
Minority group - ANSWER- Physical or cultural characteristic identifies the people as
different from the dominant group
(smaller group)
, Cultural assimilation - ANSWER- Occurs when one's values are replaced by the values of the
dominant culture
Cultural imposition - ANSWER- Belief that everyone should conform to the majority belief
system
"Everybody should speak English"
Cultural conflict - ANSWER- Occurs when people become aware of cultural differences, feel
threatened, and act negatively.
-People become aware of differences and feel threatened
-Response-- ridiculing beliefs and traditions of other to make themselves feel more secure
Cultural shock - ANSWER- Refers to the feelings a person experiences when placed in a
different culture
Which of the following occurs when a minority group, living with a dominant group, beings to
blend in and lose the characteristic that made them distinct? - ANSWER- Cultural
assimilation
Ethnicity - ANSWER- Sense of identification with a collective cultural group, largely based
on the group's common heritage
Race - ANSWER- Typically based on specific characteristics-- such as skin pigmentation,
body stature, facial features, hair textures
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (ALREADY GRADED A+) (2024
UPDATE) 100%
Cultural diversity - ANSWER- People of varying cultures, racial, ethnic origin, religion,
language, size, gender, age, socioeconomic status, location, etc.
Culture - ANSWER- Shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations that
provides social structure for daily living.
-Provides social structure for daily living
-Defines roles and interactions w/ others
Subcultures - ANSWER- Large group of people who are members of an even larger cultural
group, but who have certain ethnic, occupational, or physical characteristics that are not common
to the larger subculture
Example: nursing is a subculture of the larger healthcare system culture
Dominant group - ANSWER- Group has the most authority to control values and sanctions of
society
(usually, but not always the largest group)
Minority group - ANSWER- Physical or cultural characteristic identifies the people as
different from the dominant group
(smaller group)
, Cultural assimilation - ANSWER- Occurs when one's values are replaced by the values of the
dominant culture
Cultural imposition - ANSWER- Belief that everyone should conform to the majority belief
system
"Everybody should speak English"
Cultural conflict - ANSWER- Occurs when people become aware of cultural differences, feel
threatened, and act negatively.
-People become aware of differences and feel threatened
-Response-- ridiculing beliefs and traditions of other to make themselves feel more secure
Cultural shock - ANSWER- Refers to the feelings a person experiences when placed in a
different culture
Which of the following occurs when a minority group, living with a dominant group, beings to
blend in and lose the characteristic that made them distinct? - ANSWER- Cultural
assimilation
Ethnicity - ANSWER- Sense of identification with a collective cultural group, largely based
on the group's common heritage
Race - ANSWER- Typically based on specific characteristics-- such as skin pigmentation,
body stature, facial features, hair textures
