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A 5 page discussion of how scripture influences behavior. The author uses dress codes from the Amish and Pentecostal faith to illustrate the theories of George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Our behavior is impacted by many factors in our lives. Those factors can include biologically based influences as well as cultural influences. One
of the more important cultural influences is our religious faith. Religion is a prominent element in many lives. It influences many aspects of those lives. For Christians,
for example, there are precise scriptural directions as to what we should and should not do. The Ten Commandments are the most delineated of these directions. There are
other more subtle directions contained in Christian scripture as well, however, that drive our behavior. These directions are, in turn, reinforced by those with whom we chose to associate.
This phenomena has been explained by various psychological theories, two of the more interesting of which are presented by George Herbert Mead and his student Herbert Blumer.
Mead and Blumer have made tremendous contributions to psychology as a whole. Perhaps their most notable contributions, however, lie in the enhancement of our
understanding of cognition and symbolic interactionism (a phrase actually coined by Blumer in 1937 in response to Meads "Mind, Self and Society", first published in 1934). Although there are
some subtle differences in their theories, each of these scholars saw humans as being superior to other animals because of their ability to learn through interaction, indeed even to shape
individual actions and perceptions of the basis of interactions with others in their social group. These theories bear out when we observe the behavior of Christians that follow strict
scriptural direction. There are, of course, variations in the way Scripture is followed between different Christian groups and, indeed, even within
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