SOCI 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Millennials
19 Jun 2018
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Department
Course
Professor
Traditional Value Dimension
Respondents with Traditional values tend to emphasize
Religious beliefs
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Socially conservative ideas
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Deference to authority (especially in religious matters) among their
children
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Modern Value Dimension
Respondents with Modern Values tend to emphasize
Secular beliefs
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Socially liberal ideas
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Self-determination for their children
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Millennial Generation (born after 1980)
Are members of the "millennial generation"
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Traditional or modern?
Tend to be modern and not traditional
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Conservative or liberal?
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Tend to be postmaterialist and not materialist
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Inter-Faith Relations
Isolated
Those who are unlikely to be members of any particular faith group and
who tend to believe in the truth of their perspective above all others.
They do not want to know about any other religions. They also neither
respect nor feel respected by those of any other faiths.
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Tolerant
Individuals have a "live-and-let-live" attitude toward people of other
faiths, and they generally feel that they treat others of different faiths
with respect. However they are not likely to learn from or about other
religions
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Integrated
Respondents as those who go beyond "live and let live" attitude and
actively seek to know more about and learn from others of different
religious traditions. They believe that most faiths make a positive
contribution to society. Furthermore, integrated people do not only feel
respect toward people from other faith traditions, but they also feel
respect toward people from other faith traditions, but they also feel
respected by them.
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Lecture 11/02
November 7, 2017
11:25 AM
