Culture & Social Mores

Culture is centered around tradition that is often followed generationally, while social mores are rules and regulations we follow in our current society. Personal values are just that. They include moral values, ethical values, and philosophical values developed by a person to build their own character. According to Lev Vygotsky Sociocultural theory culture impacts people’s life significantly(Meaney & Rieger 2021). He believed that our peers, family, and religious values play key roles in developing sense of personal and physical world. From childhood, people listen to their parents, relatives, and religious leaders. This helps children believe that their culture is strong and valuable. Cognitive dissonance comes into play when our beliefs are challenged or threatened by others who believe differently from us (McGrath, A. 2020). Cognitive dissonance effects our attitudes, cultural representations and the application of the Christian worldview in large extent. Our attitudes, cultures and Christianity all have limitations. In fact, each and every culture and religion fail to explain something. If somebody finds those limitations, then we can't accept them. That conflict between our attitude, cultural, religious beliefs and our belief system will be large in extent.

McGrath, A. (2020). Bringing cognitive dissonance theory into the scholarship of teaching and learning: Topics and questions in need of investigation. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 6(1), 84–90.

Meaney, T., & Rieger, E. (2021). Integrating cognitive dissonance and social consensus to reduce weight stigma. Body Image, 37, 117–126.