sociocultural considerations in adult identity

Sociocultural Considerations in Adult Identity
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Sociocultural considerations in adult identity
Sociocultural factors are forces in the society and culture that aids in the shaping of the mode of thinking, the behavior and the thought of an individual, they include things like the child rearing practices, the religion, the race, taboos, the ethnic identity, kinship structures, discrimination among many others. Self-identity is having the understanding of oneself. It is the self-concept, its components include the physiological, physical and the social attributes that are influenced by the attitude, beliefs, ideas and the revelations that one grasps from the society (Tennen, 2012).
A cultural identity is the feeling of the identity of a group or culture practices. The cultural acts and the practices shape the believe and so the thinking of one. Identifying with the culture, or rather brown some in the environment that one associates, influence one’s identity. The ethnic identity is the basis of a common premed genealogy of those that share the ancestry (Tennen, 2012). It helps greatly a bond of identity and so influencing an adult identity. It influences the common culture, the behavior, religious traits that are ritualistic.
The religious identity is another sociocultural factor. It is the adherences of the codified beliefs including rituals. Such beliefs bases on the ancestral and cultural traditions existing in the history and the myths that spell out the faith.

It is inherited to generations and takes a center point in determining the identity of an individual (Tennen, 2012). The social relation regulated by the norms between more people with individuals having social positions so performing social roles. All the relations in social hierarchy determine the social action, the social behavior the social interaction all to shape self-identity of an individual (Tennen, 2012).
References
Tennen, H. A., Suls, J. M., & Weiner, Irving. (2012). Handbook of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology. Wiley.

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