Religious Role Differentiation as an Aspect of Subjective Culture
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Vol. 7 (1) , 3-19
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002202217671001
Abstract
A synthesis between reference group theory and structural analyses of social behavior is proposed, through a link between the concepts of role salience and role differentiation. This integration is then extended to provide a framework for some of the processes mediating individual differences in subjective culture, and some of the problems inherent in cross-cultural communication. The theoretical analysis is illustrated by an empirical study which compared religious role salience and/or differentiation in four cultural groups. The religious role was found to be more salient and less differentiated among Pakistani Moslems than among Javanese Moslems, Thai Buddhists, and Philippine Catholics.Keywords
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