What are Values

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What are Values?

• Values are ideals that guide or qualify your
  personal conduct, interaction with others, and
  involvement in your career. Like morals, they
• help you to distinguish what is right from what
  is wrong and
• inform you on how you can conduct your life in a
  meaningful way.

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Personal Values

• Personal values are principles that define you as
  an individual. Personal values, such as honesty,
  reliability, and trust, determine how you will
  face the world and relate with people.

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Cultural Values

• Cultural values, like the practice of your faith
  and customs, are principles that sustain
  connections with your cultural roots. They help
  you feel connected to a larger community of
  people with similar backgrounds.

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Beliefs

• A Belief is a conviction in the truth of a
  proposition.
• Beliefs are held without recourse to proof
• or evidence.
• Belief Systems often deal with issues which
• cannot be explained by reason or logic
  creation, the meaning of life, afterlife.

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WORLDVIEWS

• An organised and accepted set of ideas attempting
  to explain the social, cultural, physical and
  psychological world.
• Linked to values and beliefs
• Christian, Jewish and Muslim worldviews focus on
  human individuality
• Hindu and Buddhist worldviews have a wider social
  perspective.

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Symbols are pictures representing concepts

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Rituals
A ritual is a formalized, predetermined set of
symbolic actions performed in a particular
environment at a regular, recurring interval. The
set of actions that comprise a ritual often
include, but are not limited to, such things as
recitation, singing, group processions,
repetitive dance, manipulation of sacred
objects Examples are,- Hindus performing Puja,
Catholics taking Communion. Muslims praying.
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Hierarchy

• A hierarchy (from Greek ?e???-hieros, sacred, and
  ????-arkho, rule) is a system of ranking and
  organizing things or people, where each element
  of the system (except for the top element) is
  subordinate to a single other element.

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Ideology

• The body of doctrine, myth and symbols of a
  social movement, a social class or institution.
• People who adopt ideologies often act in extreme
  ways because their ideology ( set of beliefs)
  makes them think they are special.
• Islamic Fundamentalism,
• Communism, Nazism, Zionism are ideologies

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PHILOSOPHY

• 1. Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual
  means
• 2. Investigation of the nature, causes, or
  principles of reality, knowledge, or values,
  based on logical reasoning.
• 3. A system of thought based on or involving such
  inquiry
• 4. The critical analysis of fundamental
  assumptions or beliefs.
• 5. The disciplines presented in university
  curriculums of science and the liberal arts,
  except medicine, law, and theology.
• 6. The discipline comprising logic, ethics,
  aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
• 7. A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a
  particular field or activity an underlying
  theory
• 8. A system of values by which one lives

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MYTHS

• Webster's
• a traditional story of unknown authorship,
  ostensibly with a historical basis, but serving
  usually to explain some phenomenon of nature, the
  origin of humanity, or the customs,
  institutions, religious rites, etc. of a people
  myths usually involve the exploits of gods and
  heroes.

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LIFE CYCLE
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Language-Communication of thoughts and feelings
through a system of arbitrary signals, eg-voice
sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
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Globalisation

• The emergence of a global culture brought
  about by a variety of social and cultural
  developments such as the existence of world
  information systems the emergence of global
  patterns of consumption and consumerism the
  growth of transnational corporations the
  emergence of global sport like World Cup soccer
  the spread of world tourism and the growth of
  global military and economic systems. It involves
  a consciousness of the world as a single place.

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CONCEPTS FOR BELIEF SYSTEMS

• values beliefs continuity
• customs norms change
• language symbols worldviews
• philosophy ideology
• globalisation power structures
• ritual hierarchy life cycle
• myth conflict