Social values

Trisha Anne Torres

List of Family Values

Family values involve all the ideas of how you want to live your family life, and they are often
passed down from previous generations. They can help define behavior in various situations,
help youth make good choices, and solidify the bond that your family has. If your family doesn't
already have these values in place, know that it is never too late to make a list.

Types of Values
Although every family's list of values will be different, there are different categories of values
that tend to be similar.

Social Values
Social values consist of things like peace, justice, freedom, equality, and bettering our
community. Examples of social values include:

 Not hurting others and also standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves
 Being respectful and courteous in your interactions
 Volunteering time and skills in the community
 Being generous with what you have
 Being honest with others
 Participating in teamwork whenever possible
Political Values
Although being a liberal, conservative, or moderate may determine your opinion on how the
government should run and what laws should be enacted, there are certain political values that
remain constant across political parties. American values often include:

 Exceptionalism - that America is a land of limitless opportunities and, as such, has a duty to act as
an example to other countries.
 Capitalism and private ownership of property
 Patriotism
 Treating everyone equally, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion, or sexual orientation

 Being open-minded to new things

 Following the law and respecting those who enforce it

 Working hard for success

Religious Values
Religious values center around the expectations that people have about themselves and others
based on the beliefs of their faith. Although each faith has its beliefs, there are common values
that many faiths tend to share. Examples of religious values include:

 Showing compassion to those in need

 Treating others as one would like to be treated
 Continually learning and growing both spiritually and intellectually
 Being modest in your relations with others
 Being respectful and nonviolent when interacting with others

Work Values
Work values include such things as your philosophies about your job, your finances, and how
you spend your money. For children, these values include how they approach school and their
education. Examples of work values include:

 Always doing your best work

 Working in a team
 Saving a portion of your salary/allowance
 Finding opportunities to express your ideas and creativity
 Being proud of your achievements
 Making education a priority
 Keeping in mind the part that your job plays in society
  Treating co-workers, fellow students, customers, and authority figures the way that you want to be
treated

Moral Values
Moral values are your individual values about what you think is right and wrong. Moral values
provide the foundation from which you make decisions. Morals are learned from your parents
and your experiences. Examples of moral values include:

 Being honest and trustworthy

 Being courageous
 Never giving up
 Adding value to the world
 Being patient
 Taking personal responsibility

Recreational Values
Recreational values refer to anything that involves fun and play. Recreation is important in the
family because it fosters closeness in the family, opportunities for learning, creating
memories, improving social skills, and developing empathy. Examples of recreational values
include:

 Providing unstructured play time

 Having family game nights
 Allowing and encouraging each family member to pursue interests
 Taking vacations together
 Spending time together outside playing

Tips for Making Your Family's List

Sitting down as a family and coming up with a list of values can seem like a daunting task.
However, know that there is not one right way to come up with your list. Start by calling a
family meeting and getting input from each family member. Know that it may take several
meeting sessions to get all the thoughts down. However, in the end, you'll have a list that truly
reflects your family. The following tips should help you develop a list that you and your kids can
stand by:

 Consider writing a motto or mission statement that addresses your core family value, whether it be
peacefully resolving conflict, being kind and loyal or working hard.
 Talk about your family. What things are most important to your family? What are the strengths of
your family? What words or phrases best describe your family?
 Write down everything. You can always go back and narrow the list later. The first session is about
brainstorming.
  Allow everyone to think about it for a while before reconvening to agree on a list.
 Stick to ten major ideas. Your final list can have more or less, but ten is a workable number to aim
for without being overwhelming.
 Display your list. Hang your values list up somewhere where it will be seen every day.
 Refer to the list when things happen. Use your family's list of values as a teaching tool.
 Rewrite as necessary. The list may grow and evolve over time, just as your family changes.

Sample Family Values List

Although every family's list of values will be different, the following is an example of a family
values list:

 Think of the consequences before you act

 Follow the guidelines of religion
 Discuss right and wrong when modern values clash with traditional values
 Spend time together as a family, but also pursue individual interests
 Live these values, don't just talk about them
 Treat others (both inside and outside of the family) with compassion and respect
 Put your best effort toward every task
 Always continue to learn
 Learn from failures
 Celebrate successes
 Use money to do, rather than to buy
 Treat pets as family
 Remember to not always act on feelings
 Show love every day
 Sever relationships with disrespectful people
 Treat others' possessions with care and respect
 Listen since all opinions are important
 Always strive to maintain safety
 Be honest

Traditional Values Versus Modern Values

Family values tend to be reflective of the culture and time period and can be seen shifting
throughout history depending on the environment. Traditional values tended to emphasize the
extended family unit when more families were living and working together. With modernization,
family values can be seen shifting to an emphasis on independence and development versus
togetherness.

Society's Impact on Values

As society becomes more technologically advanced, the family values will change to reflect that
on a cultural level. When families worked together prior to the industrial revolution, there was
more shared time together and most likely extended family lived with each other or very close by
to make their work life more convenient. Post industrial revolution families had the option to be
more spread out and independent from each other thus shifting the emphasis on the extended
family system unit and welcoming in the nuclear family dynamic.

Shift in Gender Roles, Gender Fluidity, and Sexuality

Traditional versus modern gender roles can be reflected in society and have impacted family
values. Many women were once encouraged to stay at home and raise families while men went
out into the workforce. This notion has drastically shifted as both men and women, regardless of
having children, are able to have jobs as society has normalized women in the workforce. During
the rise of the nuclear family men and women were encouraged to raise children that reflected
the perfect nuclear family. Television, ads, and consumer products reflected this societal drive.
This atmosphere put a strict adherence on gender roles and rigid sexuality. Gender fluidity and
sexual fluidity is much more accepted in society today and the culture and family values may
reflect that. Although not a perfect system, creating family values based upon acceptance with an
emphasis on learning can help create a more open and loving familial environment where
everyone feels accepted, whereas the nuclear family era certainly did not encourage that on a
large scale.

Updating Your Family Values

Your family values can be changed at any time, especially if the goal is to create an environment
of inclusivity. Family values can be selected by the parent or parents, or children can also be
included in making the decisions if they are old enough to participate. Because the family values
are supposed to be reflective of the family as a unit, it's a good idea to encourage the younger
family members to participate in these discussions so the values mean something to everyone in
the family, not just the adults.

Your List Should Reflect Your Family

Your family's list should be unique to your family. If you are a spiritual family, your list should
be more spiritual. If you are an informal, fun-loving family, your list should reflect that. If part of
your family's greatest moments involve random dancing in your pajamas, then random pajama
dancing or general goof-ballery may be a part of your list. Anything that is important for the
health and well-being of your family should be a part of your family's value list, no matter the
activity or the language used to describe it

Angelica Mae Rodriguez

Luke 6:32-42

“If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the
same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even
sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend,
expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he
is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

-We should treat people as we wanted to be treated. Not only we do good because they do good to us,
or we love them. We should treat people equally, even if they have a sin and how big their sin is. Don't
do good things if you just expecting to have a return. Just always do good and God will do the rest.

Winnie Bognot

Faith permeates our world, providing a moral and ethical compass for the vast majority of people.
Evidence shows that –beyond individual religious practice – faith is increasingly moving into the public
sphere and may affect various aspects of economic and social life. More and more often, people of faith
are becoming key partners in organizations aimed at tackling a varied set of global challenges – a sign of
the important role of faith leaders and communities in bringing about social change.

Values

Research shows that religion and faith can play a vital role in legitimizing societal values. World faiths
represent global identities and the shared values that influence the way people live and act. A nuanced
understanding of the living interconnection between religious and cultural values can help cast light on
the dynamic ways in which religion both shapes and is shaped by society. According to our survey, a
majority of the respondents believe faith can improve people’s values.

Jerusalem Millen Romero

Social values form an important part of the culture of the society. Values account for the stability of
social order. They provide the general guidelines for social conduct. Values such as fundamental rights,
patriotism, respect for human dignity, rationality, sacrifice, individuality, equality, democracy etc. guide
our behaviour in many ways. Values are the criteria people use in assessing their daily lives; arrange
their priorities and choosing between alternative course of action.
Values are standards of social behaviour derived from social interaction and accepted as constituent
facts of social structure. They are objects that social conditions desire. These are culturally defined goals
and involve “sentiments and significance.” These consist of “aspirational reference.”

Arrel Joy Amarillo

Social values are a set of moral principles defined by society dynamics, institutions, traditions and
cultural beliefs. These values are implicit guidelines that provide orientation to individuals and
corporations to conduct themselves properly within a social system.

Values are progressively formed in the lives of people and in corporate culture. They shape society’s
behavior to guarantee adequate coexistence between participants. These values provide the boundaries
between what is right and what is wrong, what is permissible, prohibited, illegal, desirable, legitimate or
punishable and, the only way they can positively function is by a collective agreement, either explicit or
implicit, that clarifies rules in a way that everybody knows and understands the boundaries

Jobelle Pasilan

According to Wikipedia, he meaning of the word Social means

living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting
populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction
is voluntary or involuntary. While Values can be defined as broad preferences concerning
appropriate courses of actions or outcomes. As such, values reflect a person's sense of right and
wrong or what "ought" to be. According to Bible.org, Values are essential to effective leadership.
They are the uncompromisable, undebatable truths that drive and direct behavior. They are
motivational, giving us the reason why we do things; and they are restrictive, placing boundaries
around behavior. Values are those things that we deem important and that provide direction and
guidance in spite of our emotions.

Assessing those meanings we conclude that Social Values ca In our culture, this virtue is
often misunderstood as meaning “niceness” or pleasantness. But in this passage kindness is
meant in a far more active sense.

Bilbe verses abut Values

Leviticus 27:1-25
Again, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a
man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to
the LORD. 'If your valuation is of the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your
valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

Jeremiah 32:6-9
And Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'Behold, Hanamel the son of
Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, "Buy for yourself my field which is at Anathoth, for
you have the right of redemption to buy it."' "Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the
court of the guard according to the word of the LORD and said to me, 'Buy my field, please, that
is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for you have the right of possession and the
redemption is yours; buy it for yourself ' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

Matthew 27:9
Verse Concepts
Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "AND THEY TOOK
THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, THE PRICE OF THE ONE WHOSE PRICE HAD BEEN
SET by the sons of Israel;

Philippians 3:8
Verse Concepts
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus
my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may
gain Christ,

Riza Marie Belo

Social values form an important part of the culture of the society. Values account for the stability of
social order. They provide the general guidelines for social conduct. Values such as fundamental rights,
patriotism, respect for human dignity, rationality, sacrifice, individuality, equality, democracy etc. guide
our behaviour in many ways. Values are the criteria people use in assessing their daily lives; arrange
their priorities and choosing between alternative course of action.

Values are standards of social behaviour derived from social interaction and accepted as constituent
facts of social structure. They are objects that social conditions desire. These are culturally defined goals
and involve “sentiments and significance.” These consist of “aspirational reference.”

Values are expected to be followed for judging and evaluating social interaction, goals, means, ideas,
feelings and the expected conduct. Without such evaluating standard, it would be difficult to judge
individual behaviour or social action. Values aim to integrate expected individual behaviour and social
action. It tends to forestall tension and as such have tension management role.

Functions of Values:

1. Values provide goals or ends for the members to aim for.

2. Values provide for stabilities and uniformities in group interaction. They hold the society together
because they are shared in common. Some sociologists argue that shared values form the basis for
social unity. Since they share the same values with others, the members of society are likely to see
others as “people like themselves”. They will therefore, have a sense of belonging to a social group.
They will feel a part of the wider society.

3. Values bring legitimacy to the rules that govern specific activities. The rule are accepted as rules and
followed mainly because they embody the values that most people accept. The Americans for example,
believe that the capitalist organization is the best one because it allows people to seek success in life.

4. Values help to bring about some kind of adjustment between different sets of rules. The people seek
the same kinds of ends or goals in different field of their life. Hence, it is possible for them to modify the
rules to help the pursuit of this end.

For example, if the Indian people cherish the value of “the principle of equality”, then they will have to
modify the rules governing the interpersonal relationship of husband and wife; and man and woman. As
and when new activities emerge, people create rules in the light of their beliefs about what is ‘good’ and
‘right’.