ABSTRACT
According to this analysis, if one is to understand any given psychological effect, one will have to examine in detail the nature of the local cultural world, because this world is likely to be both affording and afforded by the very psychological effect at issue. Thus, much effort has to be devoted to understanding the nature of socio-cultural system of which the psychological effect is a participating part. It is also important that once this system has been identified, it is traced historically to raise a question of where the system has come from and how it has been formed and shaped over generations of people in the cultural context. Our own effort towards understanding this cultural selection process is illustrated in Figure 15.5.
