Sociocultural Context

In this section the author talks about the way of conducting the study which is the basis of this book. She has chosen a total of twelve families including six white, five black and one interracial. All the families had children who aged from 9-10 years. She visited these families at least twenty times in a time span of a month and spend time around the space where their everyday lives evolve.

The Social Ecological consist of several different levels including the individual (this case the child), microsystem (their parents, school, and peers), mesosystem, exosystem (mass media), and macrosystem (laws, customs, and ideologies) (). Each one of the different levels plays a major impact in building the foundation of the relationship of the parent and the child. While acculturation is the change that occurs in populations experiencing engaging contact with another population with different culture and values than

We all have roots throughout this planet. One commonality in every human is that at one point in time every one was once a newborn, who then developed into a grown up. People in divergent societies are exclusively different in the way their surrounding and immediate environments are, the culture instilled into them, the parenting behaviors that have shaped them and how they have adapted to their lifestyles. Because there are several millions of people being raised in a number of contrasting environments, ethnologies, accustoms, and societies, scientists and researchers need to spotlight more research on populations that are not typically studied to get a true understanding of how all individuals develop, learn, and grow. The vast majority

In order to see the broader social context we must need to understand first what social context actually is?

In todays society, you can not turn on the tv or radio without hearing some type of denigrating remark. Unfortunately its the cause of all the social norms. Our nation has been brainwashed by so many factors. Such as tv, radio, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. This topic reminds me a lot of a section in my psycology class “Behavior in Social and Cultural Context”. It talks about attributions within social influences, behavior, ethnic identity, and stereotypes. Which could not fit anymore perfectly with what is going on in the world today, and this topic.

In addition to the social-ecological framework, the other variables of context that was analyzed in this survey were family, peer, school, and neighborhood (Merrin, Hong, and Espelage 2015). This voluntary survey which was conducted on middle

The generic definition for diversity is the condition of having people of different races and cultures in an organization, such as a school. Culture is similarly generically defined as the beliefs, customs, and attitudes of a group of people or an organization. A deeper perspective encompasses sociocultural theory, where the social and cultural context of a person’s thought and actions are considered. According to sociocultural theory, we do not live in a vacuum. Interaction with social forces, or those omnipresent social influences that surround us, goes a long way toward explaining our attitudes, character, knowledge, feelings, and other individual attributes (“Diversity Consciousness”, 2010, 2004, and 2000).

Sociocultural influences evolve from a consumer's formal and informal relationship with other people. These influences in regards to our company include personal influence, family influence, and culture. Personal influence is when a customer’s purchases are often influenced by the views, opinions, and behaviors of others. An example of this is word-of-mouth activity. If a customer likes our product and they start talking to other prospective customers than those prospective buyers will either be influenced to buy the product or they will be deterred from trying it. Many potential customers tend to follow opinion leaders. These are individuals who directly and indirectly influence others opinions based on theirs. Our opinion leaders would be the customers who initially try our product even though we are a newer business. These customers did not need another person's opinion before they tried the baked goods we have to offer. These initial customers are going to have a large impact on whether or not our business gets a good brand image and whether others will follow their lead and also try our treats.

The author describe the " dynamic coexistence of individualism and collectivism in cultures and individuals" in my opinion that means the existence of the people and where they stand as far as cultures, goals, morals, and economic and how important it is to create different things with your family. Parents of diverse ethnic/cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds display differences in their socialization goals, supporting the idea that parents enact the views and practices of their cultural communities and mediate the effects of the broader sociocultural environments on children (LeMonda, Tamis. Parents' goals for children: The dynamic coexistence of individualism and collectivism in cultures and individuals.2008). A major distinction in individualism

Microsystem (family, peers, and local community) is the child’s closest environment. The interactions of this system help construct their socialization (Wong, Hall, Justice and Hernandez, 2015). The Mesosystem joins with microsystem. Interactions of the mesosytem could be rejections of the child’s family that results in problems developing positive interactions with their peers. The Ecosystem (general society and culture) affects the child’s immediate setting even though it may not have interactions with the child (Wong et al, 2015). For inference, the dad job gets a promotion however; it calls for him to go out of town. This change effects the mother’s normal duties and now she cant devote as much time with the child. The macrosystem is

some conversations are about complex things, like race and sexual orientation. other conversations are about simple things like what's for dinner and how nice it is outside.

A culture of any region provides a complete framework to its inhabitants to how to organize themselves, their actions and thoughts with respect to their environment. Thus culture is not innate; instead it is learned by the people as they continue to live in that particular region. This culture drives their thinking, actions and basically all kinds of interaction with their surroundings. Thus, it is different for different areas and people from these areas learn different ways to interact by each other(Neuliep, 2015).Moreover, people from different cultures differ from each other because of their context in which they move about. This context plays an important role in providing meaning to their interaction. There are some things that cannot be understood by verbal words alone; they have to be justified by the context in which they exist. This has been argued by Edward Hall, according to whom, “context carries varying proportions of the meaning” (Gamsrieglerm, 2005). Because of these differences in interaction due to differences in the context in which these people exist, culture has been divided into two sub-categories. One is high-context culture and the other is low-context culture. These two terms are used to refer to the differences in culture between different societies because of the difference in context, and have been suggested by a well-known U.S. anthropologist Edward T. Hall (Hofstede, 2011).

Sociocultural perspective is mainly about how different people are from one another. This theory is used to determine what might trigger or influence someone's behavior or mental stage, such as their surroundings, gender, culture, or even ethnicity. A person's surroundings is a major part of their behavior or actions because this could help a psychologist understand why they think something is normal, or where they picked up some of the habits they may have. For example, someone from a more individual or smaller society will have a more independent of others as well as themselves. Society is also put into the socio-cultural perspective because children tend to lean towards what everyone else does so they could feel pressured to do things just to fit into a group.

Within this case study it is quite simple to understand the outside forces that are contributing to the personal growth of Cristina. Gaining insight on Cristina’s context of her microsystem in relation to her educational life elaborates the factors that affect her growth mentally and intellectually at school. After reading the description of the case study it was quite simple to see that the context of Cristina’s situation stems from her home life. A context refers to the situation that surrounds and interacts with an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions to shape development and learning. (Woolfolk p. 75) The context that effect’s Cristina is her bioecological model of her life and her potential of having a learning disability in regards to her personal growth. Multiple psychological factors will contribute to Cristina’s successful development in a personal sense, whether it cognitively, socially, or behaviorally.

Society and schools have a great reasonability in their role for optimum learning and pro-social behavior in children. Learning and socialization typically starts at home, or within daycare facilities. Many of these first lessons deal with a child’s interaction with family, siblings, baby sitters, peers, etc. They learn what is socially and culturally acceptable within their environment. This can cause some confusion if the child’s family comes from a different culture than is presented at the childcare facility. In America, there is a ‘melting pot’ of cultures and diverseness. A child may find that what may be acceptable at home, may not be acceptable within society in general, and vice versa.