ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the sociocultural dimensions of resilience. It presents findings related to interpersonal and personal resilience. Sociocultural resilience is associated with social meanings derived from the culture of a particular intragroup interaction. Traditionally, culture has been defined as encompassing the values, norms, beliefs, attitudes, and folkways of a specific family or community group. Customs and cultural forms are said to be passed along through socialization to future generations. A broader view of culture suggests that it be considered a community of interest, encompassing communities not explicitly racial or ethnic. Members of ethnosystems usually share knowledge of critical historical and personal events that can alter individual and community circumstances as well as their sense of resilience. Sociocultural resilience is related to philosophical and political connotations of a particular time and place. The interpersonal dimensions of resilience first occurs within families. Family resilience is understood as a systems-ecological phenomenon.
