COM 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aid To Families With Dependent Children, Value Proposition, Family Values
8 Nov 2016
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Introduction: religion and philosophy are fields primarily concerned with right and wrong, moral and immoral, and ethical and unethical behavior. The nature of values: value can be an ambiguous term. Value is an enduring belief that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence. A value system is an enduring organization of beliefs concerning preferable modes of conduct or end-states of existence along a continuum of relative importance. (rokeach, 1973, p. 5) Cleverly arranged so that the first letters of each combine to spell the words core values, these foundational values are said to be compassion, opportunity, responsibility, equality, valor, ambition, liberty, unity, enterprise, and spirituality. He argues these values should have the same utility for americans in the twenty-first century as they did for the.
