Quotes About Sociocultural

We know poor and middle class children exhibit certain differences in styles of talking and thinking, but we do not know yet why or how these differences occur.

One reason people might prize socially constructed reinforcement over intrinsic reinforcement is sociocultural programming.

It is all a matter of individual cost-benefit decisions: change this calculation—lessen the costs of child rearing or increase the benefits—and population level will rise; increase the costs or lower the benefits and population level will slowly decline. And these individual cost-benefit decisions are dependent upon the relation of the sociocultural system to its environment.

Humankind, more than any other species, can take the accumulated, distilled experiences of previous generations and pass these inventions, beliefs, and skills to the next generation. This is sociocultural evolution.

E]motional suffering cannot be disowned from its sociocultural context. In other words, relationships are critical to virtually every psychiatric illness and its treatment. Those relationships stretch far beyond the therapist-patient relationship.

There is no way to know whether a thought is new except with reference to some standards, and there is no way to tell whether it is valuable until it passes social evaluation. Therefore, creativity does not happen inside people's heads, but in the interaction between a person's thoughts and a sociocultural context. It is a systemic rather than an individual phenomenon.