The sociocultural approach examines the influences of social and cultural environments on behavior. A major influence on people’s behavior, thought processes and emotions are other people and the society they have created.
The understanding of human behavior and personality can be developed by examining rules of the social groups and subgroups in which the individual is apart of. Race and ethnicity, religion, gender, social class, family traditions, peer groups, and age are some of the subgroups that may influence someone’s behavior.
Using this approach, a theory was developed by Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and he claim that are 3 cultural tools which children use to inform their cognitive abilities.