Creating Value For Humanity
May 25, 2019 • 44 views
Values are desirable goals, ends and mode of action that make human behaviour selective.They are the belief that an individual holds to be true. It can vary from person to person. It's not constant. God has made every living creature unique. Every people have their own good and bad. The kind of decision taken is affected by the value system. The value system has a significant role to play in our day to day activities. Virtue development is not one day task. It begins to develop from childhood. Parents have an active role to play in the development . Education also helps in developing values.
WAYS TO INCREASE VALUES FROM CHILDHOOD:
BEDTIME STORIES: Short stories regarding justice, bravery, creativity innovation helps them in becoming decision makers
GRANDPARENTS COMPANY:History knowledge,religion ,souls,deeds,evils
MASS MEDIA: It also helps in the development of the brain and mind for productive usage.
FUNCTION OF VALUES:
Helps in decision making
They form an attitude.
They help in creating norms to guide day-to-day behaviour.
They have a great role to play in the conduct of social life.
They build up societies, integrate social relations.
Define human behaviour.
They mould the ideal dimensions of personality and range and depth of culture and tradition.
Difference between norms and values?
Values are general guidelines, while norms are specific guidelines.
WHY FOCUS ON VALUES?
Values are affected by culture, religion. It provides life goals.
SOURCES?
FAMILY AS THE SOURCE OF VALUES
Management
Gender sensitivity
Democratic decision making
Regard towards nation, rule, state.
Discriminatory practice and other events.
Insulation of various values i.e scientific or superstitious
Financial management
Innovation orconformity
EDUCATION AS THE SOURCE
Education is a social process.Education is growth.
Channelizing energy
Communitarian view
Creating new values
Preservation and transmission
Problem-solving capabilities.
Classification of values:
Gandhi's Classification:
* Truth
* Non-violence
* Freedom
* Democracy
* Equality
* Self-realization
* Purity of ends and means
* Self-discipline
Values can be classified into two broad categories:
(1) Individual values:
These are the values which are related to the development of human personality. It results in the overall development of an individual.
(2) Collective values
For the benefit of the society or community as a whole.
(3) Intrinsic values
They are related to the goals of life
(4) Instrumental values
They come after intrinsic values. They are also known as proximate or incidental values.
Ultimately it can be concluded that human behaviour and relation are embedded in values and hence values have its own importance.Understand your worth ,value ur life and appreciate the blessings.
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