Pych 101

Shante Jones

Psyc101_8wk

August 27, 2015

The perspective that I choose was the Sociocultural Perspective. Sociocultural is an approach to the study of psychology that emphasizes the role of social and cultural influences on behavior. Sociocultural examines how behavior and attitudes are shaped by the social and cultural influences to which people are exposed. Sociocultural focuses on the influences of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle, income level, disability status, and culture on behavior and mental processes (Essentials of Psychology: Concepts and Applications).

Through the emphasis of social, and cultural influences on behavior; i.e. age, ethnicity, gender, lifestyle, and income. Example, a lower income level coupled with certain ethnicities (statistically supported) could be easier influenced. Statistics show that there is a connection between videogames and poverty. It has been shown that violent videogames unnecessarily exposes children to violence and causing can cause them to delinquent. Similar concerns have been raised in regards to television, and comic books. Despite all the apparently obvious connection, the reality of the situation still remains a bit more complicated (www.theguardian.com/science/head-quaters/2013/sep/19/neurosicence-psychology).

From a biblical perspective I would say this theory is consistent in perspective of the social and cultural influences. I would compare this theory of social and cultural influences to the Exodus of people of Israel. After the ten plagues of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. After 40 years of wandering lost in the desert, Moses died within sight of the Promised Land. Before his death he went up to the mountain top of Mt. Sinai for forty days and forty night to commune with God. He neither ate nor drank. He wrote the covenant of God; known to us today as the Ten...