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: Culture provides principles to people to sample information in their environment (Triandis and Suh, 2002 ). Researchers have looked at culture in different ways. Some have explored culture in terms of structures, some have defined its functions, while others have examined the processes. Whatever be the lens through which culture has been seen, all these conceptions have helped in understanding the impact of culture on human interaction. When trying to make sense of others' behavior, their own behavior, or even taking a stand on issues, people from Eastern cultures may focus more on family reactions (like what will my family/community say, or what will be the repercussions of my action on my family, etc.), 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.