Traditional Values

(noun)

Traditional values emphasize the importance of religion, parent-child ties, deference to authority and traditional family values. People who embrace these values also reject divorce, abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. These societies have high levels of national pride and a nationalistic outlook.

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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.

  • Conservatism

    • Liberal conservatism is a variant of conservatism that combines conservative values and policies with classical liberal stances.
    • Historically, the term referred to combination of economic liberalism, which champions laissez-faire markets, with the classical conservatism concern for established tradition, respect for authority, and religious values.
    • They believe strongly in traditional values and politics, and often have an urgent sense of nationalism.
    • Social conservatives believe that the government has a role in encouraging or enforcing what they consider traditional values or behaviors.
    • Social conservatives see traditional social values as threatened by secularism, so they support school prayer and oppose abortion and homosexuality.

  • Political Values

    • Political cultures have values that are largely shared by their members; these are called political values.
    • A value system is a set of consistent values and measures.
    • Types of values include ethical/moral values, doctrinal/ideological (religious, political) values, social values, and aesthetic values.
    • Over time the public expression of personal values, that groups of people find important in their day-to-day lives, lay the foundations of law, custom and tradition.
    • "Over the last three decades, traditional-age college students have shown an increased interest in personal well-being and a decreased interest in the welfare of others. " Values seemed to have changed, affecting the beliefs, and attitudes of college students.

  • Defining Values

    • Personal values can be influenced by culture, tradition, and a combination of internal and external factors.
    • Values are usually shaped by many different internal and external influences, including family, traditions, culture, and, more recently, media and the Internet.
    • A person will filter all of these influences and meld them into a unique value set that may differ from the value sets of others in the same culture.
    • Values can strongly influence employee conduct in the workplace.
    • However, hiring for values is at least as important.

  • Introduction to Criteria for Evaluation

    • To make these choices, it is necessary to value or prioritize ends and means.
    • The process of ranking and the ultimate selection of priorities require criteria to value the alternatives.
    • Both ends and means can be ranked on the basis of tradition.
    • In many cases, traditional solutions may be very effective.
    • If traditions and existing institutions result in increasingly less successful results, new solutions that are more consistent with individual values and expectations may emerge.

  • Economic Systems

    • The principles, beliefs and values held by individuals are included in the structure of society.
    • These are classified as markets, command, and tradition.
    • Markets and command exist in traditional economies.
    • Tradition and markets exist in command economies.
    • In market economies tradition is important to such decisions regarding values, expectations about behavior (trust, loyalty, etc.), fashion, preferences about housing, choices about occupations and geographic preferences.

  • Value-Based Pricing

    • Value-based pricing seeks to set prices primarily on the value perceived by customers rather than on the cost of the product or historical prices.
    • This image shows the process for value based pricing .
    • Value-based pricing is predicated upon an understanding of customer value.
    • Examples include matching the price of competitors, a traditional price charged for a particular product, and charging a price that covers expected costs.
    • Value-based pricing focuses entirely on the customer as a determinant of the total price/value package.

  • 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.

  • Interpreting Non-Significant Results

    • However, the high probability value is not evidence that the null hypothesis is true.
    • This means that the probability value is 0.62, a value very much higher than the conventional significance level of 0.05.
    • One group receives the new treatment and the other receives the traditional treatment.
    • In other words, the probability value is 0.11.
    • Using a method for combining probabilities, it can be determined that combining the probability values of 0.11 and 0.07 results in a probability value of 0.045.