One Feeds Off The Other ... or what?!

[kahljorn]

It's pretty easy, really, when just about everything you *need* is supplied by an outside source. Everything you receive is taxed, depending on the culture. This breeds dependence, which breeds all kinds of insufferable psychological attachment-- in at least some sense.
Culture also comes with it's own religion usually, like some kind of action figure apparel. there's no reason to even get started on how religion plays it's hand in that. You know.
There's also things like families; when you have the father and mother figures of the family already set to follow your beliefs, their kids are more likely to have the same set of beliefs.
Since you are using the word socio-cultural... have you ever heard of the socio-sexual circuit from timothy leary's 8th circuit model of consciousness? most of it is pretty much more or less loosely based on the observations of other psychologists, philosophers and other such people of history. It outlines Freud's and Jung's feelings on things, more so Jung's.
So it's called Socio-Sexual. That really states alot, but to continue it's believed to be inherited/imprinted during adolescence. This is the fourth circuit, the three before it are Oral, anal and reasoning(or semantic). Basically, as a child you have all of those fine psychological weaknesses to be consciously or unconsciously beaten into you by your parents and society until your actual "Socio-sexual" circuit is imprinted.
The socio sexual circuit includes functions such as, obviously, what turns you on sexually. What your role in society is. Basically, who you "are". Sex and character. I believe freud called it the, "Genital stage". Nothing like genitals to give you an ego.