Cultural Value

Examples of Cultural Value in the following topics:

• Political Values

  • Political cultures have values that are largely shared by their members; these are called political values.
  • Without normative personal values, there would be no cultural reference against which to measure the virtue of individual values and so culture identity would disintegrate.
  • Cultures have values that are largely shared by their members.
  • Different cultures reflect different values.
  • Members take part in a culture even if each member's personal values do not entirely agree with some of the normative values sanctioned in the culture.

• Conservatism

  • Liberal conservatism is a variant of conservatism that combines conservative values and policies with classical liberal stances.
  • National conservatism concentrates more on national interests than standard conservatism, and it upholds cultural and ethnic identity.
  • Cultural conservativism the preservation of the heritage of one nation, or of a shared culture that is not defined by national boundaries.Cultural conservatives hold fast to traditional ways of thinking even in the face of monumental change.
  • They believe strongly in traditional values and politics, and often have an urgent sense of nationalism.
  • Social conservatism is distinct from cultural conservatism, although there are some overlaps.

• Socioeconomic and Racial Demographics

  • Wealthier and more highly educated people tend to have more opportunities to be socialized to political values.
  • Racial and ethnic groups, like other groups, socialize the members of the group towards different values in politics.
  • Cultural factors contribute to the lower levels of Asian American and Pacific Islander voting; for example, some are recent immigrants who still maintain strong ties to their ethnic culture.
  • People are also socialized to accept different political values, ideologies, and parties based on the region of the country in which they grew up or currently live.
  • Historically, men have occupied a more central position in American political culture than women.

• The Middle Class

  • The middle class consists of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy, which varies between cultures.
  • The middle class is a category of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy, though common measures of what constitutes middle class vary significantly between cultures.
  • The size of the middle class depends on how it is defined, whether by education, wealth, environment of upbringing, social network, manners or values, etc.
  • However, the following factors are often ascribed in modern usage to someone in the middle class: having a college education; holding professional qualifications, including academics, lawyers, engineers, and doctors; a belief in bourgeoisvalues, such as high rates of home ownership and secure jobs; a particular lifestyle; and the identification culturally with mainstream popular culture (particularly in the United States).

• Forming Political Values

  • People form political values throughout their life cycle through different agents of political socialization, including family, media, and education.
  • It is through the performance of this function that individuals are inducted into the political culture and their orientations towards political objects are formed.
  • Family - Most important shaper of basic attitudes Teaches basic political values & loyalty to particular political party
  • Children learn political values through political socialization.
  • Explain the agents of socialization that inform the individual's political values

• Family, Peers, Church, and School

  • People that surround a child during his or her childhood are crucial to the child's development of political values and voting behaviors.
  • Like other institutions, these places teach participants how to interact with the religion's material culture (like a mezuzah, a prayer rug, or a communion wafer).
  • From ceremonial rites of passage that reinforce the family unit, to power dynamics which reinforce gender roles, religion fosters a shared set of socialized values that are passed on through society.

• From Political Values to Ideology

  • Values represent a society's shared convictions about what is just and good.
  • Core American political values are vested in what is often called the American creed.
  • Democratic political values are among the cornerstones of the American creed.
  • Capitalist economic values are also a part of American values.
  • While there are various components to fundamental American political values, not all Americans agree on which exactly the most important values should be .

• Political Ideology

  • It aims at protecting traditional values (especially on social issues) while promoting the concept of small government.
  • Liberals and progressives commonly advocate strong civil liberties, social progressivism, cultural pluralism, government ensuring of positive rights (education, health care, etc.) and a mixed economy.

• Cohesiveness

  • Characteristics shared by members of a group may include interests, values, representations, ethnic or social background, and kinship ties.
  • An ethnic interest group, according to the political scientist Thomas Ambrosio, is an advocacy group established along cultural, ethnic, religious, or racial lines by an ethnic group for the purposes of directly or indirectly influencing the foreign policy of their resident country in support of the homeland and/or ethnic kin abroad with which they identify.

• The End of Affirmative Action?

  • Multiculturalism relates to communities containing multiple cultures.
  • The idea of the Melting pot is a metaphor that implies that all the immigrant cultures are mixed and amalgamated without state intervention
  • Critics of multiculturalism often debate whether the multicultural ideal of benignly co-existing cultures that interrelate and influence one another, and yet remain distinct, is sustainable, paradoxical, or even desirable.
  • It is argued that Nation states, who would previously have been synonymous with a distinctive cultural identity of their own, lose out to enforced multiculturalism and that this ultimately erodes the host nations' distinct culture.