Title: Sociocultural Context - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Sociocultural Context
Sociocultural Context
Cohort differences in personality
Abstract
Culture-Bound Syndromes, Cultural Variations, and Psychopathology
A Paranoid Personality Disorder
Names and Naming
Naming and Life Course
Values Across Cultures, Development of
Development of Values across Cultures: Differences and Similarities in Value Preferences
Motivational Psychology of Human Development
Conclusions
Clinical Geropsychology
7.02.2.3.2 Sociocognitive development
Sexual Harassment: Social and Psychological Issues
4.3 Sociocultural Explanations
Montesquieu, Charles, the Second Baron of (1689–1755)
Historical Perspectives
IV. SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
The Intersection of Positive Psychology and the Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
2.10 Culturally Encompassing Data Gathering

Content: which can be referred to as elements of the collective self. These cultures emphasize interdependence among individuals more while people in Western cultures may focus more on their personal self as these societies are more individual oriented. Also, Western culture seems to hold clear-cut dichotomies between the self and the other, man and nature. Thus, we see that there are cultural variations in the way people relate and interact with each other and these are shaped by values. Relationality seems to be very important in Asian cultures but not in Western culture. Cultural values reflect what a social collective would think is right and desirable. How relationality works in Asian cultures and under what conditions it does not work needs exploration. Another question of interest to theorists working on culture is that can a nation be used as a synonym for culture or also do nations have a culture. Rohner (1984) attempted to answer this question. He proposed that the essence of ‘culture’ lies in the shared way in which individuals interpret what goes on around them.