Traditional Values

Examples of Traditional Values in the following topics:

• Value Clusters

  • In general, the World Values Survey has revealed two major axes along which values cluster: (1) a continuum from traditional to secular values and (2) a continuum from survival to self-expression.
  • Traditional values emphasize the importance of religion, parent-child ties, deference to authority, and traditional family values.
  • Secular values have the opposite preferences to the traditional values.
  • These societies place less emphasis on religion, traditional family values, and authority.
  • Industrialization tends to bring a shift from traditional values to secular ones.

• An Overview of U.S. Values

  • Achievement and success are typical American values.
  • Different cultures reflect different values.
  • Since the late 1970's, the terms "traditional values" and"family values" have become synonymous in the U.S., and imply a congruence with mainstream Christianity .
  • However, the term "family values" is arguably a modern politicized subset of traditional values, which is a larger concept, anthropologically speaking.
  • "Family values" is arguably a modern politicized subset of traditional values.

• Culture Wars

  • In American usage, "culture war" refers to the claim that there is a conflict between those conservative and liberal values.
  • Bush) believed in the importance of religion and traditional family values.
  • A culture war is a struggle between two sets of conflicting cultural values.
  • This can be framed to describe west versus east, rural versus urban, or traditional values versus progressive secularism.
  • They often accused their political opponents of undermining tradition, Western civilization and family values.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • The traditional family form in most cultures is patriarchal, contributing to inequality between the sexes.
  • Traditional male roles and responsibilities are valued more than the traditional roles done by their wives (i.e., housekeeping, child rearing).
  • The traditional family is also an inequitable structure for women and children.

• Rituals

  • A ritual is a set of actions performed mainly for their symbolic value, that may be prescribed by the traditions of a community.
  • A ritual is a set of actions performed mainly for their symbolic value.
  • It may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including by a religious community.
  • They include not only the various worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults, but also the rites of passage of certain societies, atonement and purification rites, oaths of allegiance, dedication ceremonies, coronations and presidential inaugurations, marriages and funerals, school "rush" traditions and graduations, club meetings, sports events, Halloween parties, veterans parades, Christmas shopping and more.
  • Alongside the personal dimensions of worship and reverence, rituals can have social functions that express, fix and reinforce the shared values and beliefs of a society.

• Strain Theory: How Social Values Produce Deviance

  • Innovation involves the acceptance of the goals of a culture but the rejection of the traditional and/or legitimate means of attaining those goals.
  • Retreatism involves the rejection of both the cultural goals and the traditional means of achieving those goals.
  • In this sense, according social strain theory, social values actually produce deviance in two ways.
  • First, an actor can reject social values and therefore become deviant.
  • Additionally, an actor can accept social values but use deviant means to realize them.

• Formulating the Hypothesis

  • All of these governments had similar institutions, but the regions had different traditions of civic engagement.
  • All of these governments had similar institutions, but the regions had different traditions of civic engagement.
  • Variables are measurable phenomena whose values can change under different conditions.
  • In other words, the value of a dependent variable depends on the value of the independent variable.
  • If there is no relationship, then the value of the dependent variable does not depend on the value of the independent variable.

• Durkheim and Social Integration

  • Emile Durkheim studied how societies maintained social integration after traditional bonds were replaced by modern economic relations.
  • People's norms, beliefs, and values make up a collective consciousness, or a shared way of understanding and behaving in the world.
  • Further, Durkheim argued, the organic solidarity of modern societies might have advantages over traditional mechanical solidarity.
  • In traditional societies, people are self-sufficient, and therefore society has little need for cooperation and interdependence.
  • Traditional mechanical solidarity may tend, therefore, to be authoritarian and coercive.

• Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

  • Although individuals perform very different roles in an organization, and often have different values and interests, there is a cohesion that arises from the compartmentalization and specialization woven into "modern" life.
  • Normally operating in small-scale "traditional" societies, mechanical solidarity often describes familial networks; it is often seen as a function of individuals being submerged in a collective consciousness.
  • Though traditional small towns, familial networks, and religious congregations are often cited examples of mechanical solidarity, dispersed religious communities would also qualify if they can be said to share a collective conscience.
  • Although individuals perform very different roles in an organization, and they often have different values and interests, there is a cohesion that arises from the compartmentalization and specialization woven into "modern" life.

• Countercultures

  • Counterculture is a term describing the values and norms of a cultural group that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
  • Modern American Marxist political groups are examples of countercultures -- they promote a worldview and set of norms and values that are contrary to the dominant American system.
  • Counterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition.
  • As the 1960s progressed, widespread tensions developed in American society that tended to flow along generational lines regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, and a materialistic interpretation of the American Dream.
  • The counterculture in the United States lasted from roughly 1964 to 1973 — coinciding with America's involvement in Vietnam — and reached its peak in 1967, the "Summer of Love. " The movement divided the country: to some Americans, these attributes reflected American ideals of free speech, equality, world peace, and the pursuit of happiness; to others, the same attributes reflected a self-indulgent, pointlessly rebellious, unpatriotic, and destructive assault on America's traditional moral order.