442) This clearly indicates the relationship between social and cultural context. This shift in meaning also indicates aspects of the relationship between knowledge and context: in the first instance, context is an item of knowledge in the second it is a condition which shapes knowledge. The conception of culture, however, has been transformed from an idea that comprises what people say, do and think. The idea of culture has become the primary context for many social and cultural anthropologists. 438) Dilley goes on to say that is is ethnographic interpretation by social and cultural anthropologists relies on a sense of context. (Dilley, 2002) Dilley suggests that, context is one of the central concepts of social and cultural anthropology indeed, stress on context in interpretation is one of its distinguishing features and it is relied upon as an indispensable part is anthropological method. Although the problem may appear in different guises in each of these separate disciplines, its various manifestations can be shown to be interlinked in numerous and complex ways'. 'The problem of context has raised its head in a number of academic disciplines over recent years.

It can as well be referred to as the impact of society and culture practised by a person or a society.

The word 'sociocultural' is basically a combination of that which involves both social and cultural factors. Sociocultural context refers to circumstances elating to both social and cultural matters. Meaning that the context has to relate to relevant and reliant surroundings that can contrast with conventional perspectives in social and cultural anthropology that frequently treat context as a 'given' or a self-evident construct-that is, it is not questioned at the beginning of the analysis but simply taken 'off-the-peg', as it were. It can as well be referred to as the impact of society and culture practised by a person or a society.

(Dilley, 2002)Īccording to Dilley, the context are the connections we make between ideas. What is Socio-Cultural Context Sociocultural context refers to circumstances elating to both social and cultural matters. Context too involves making connections and, by implication, disconnections'. ' One way in which i have chosen to frame the problem of context and its related term 'interpretation' is to think of them both in terms of 'connection'. (Dilley, 2002) The concept of context has a very broad currency (in social anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, history, and so forth), and its forms of exchange are varied across the boundaries of various disciplines. The word 'context' is derived from the Latin verb texere, 'to weave', and the related Latin verb contexere carries the meaning of 'to weave together', 'to interweave', 'to join together' or 'to compose'.

Socio cultural contexts