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Religious Role Differentiation as an Aspect of Subjective Culture

University of New South Wales

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.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 3-19 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/002202217671001


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