Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Intercultural Perspectives on Family Counseling, Dr. Brain Canfield, Editör, Routledge, London/New York , New-York, ss.150-170, 2020
Individualism and collectivism are the two cultural
dimensions used to analyze individuals’ social systems, morality, religion,
cognitive differentiation, cultural patterns, values, and the embedded self
versus the autonomous self (Triandis, 1993). Different than the case in the
individualist society, in the collectivist societies, social behavior is
predicted from norms, obligations, and responsibilities, and relationships are
considered to have the greatest importance for individuals, even if these
relationships interfere with personal benefits (Rasheed, 2015). It is important
to note that in some cultures people may fall along a continuum, as they are
not completely individualist or collectivist. The Saudi culture used to be
purely collectivist, however, in the recent years, the new generation in the Saudi
society can be described as close to collectivist, but not purely collectivist,
which means that those individuals start to depend more on themselves with
little boundaries of their own. This slight shift is causing a disturbance in
the relations of across generations, as more and more youth in Saudi Arabia has
started to present certain individualistic values and behaviors.