Secular Values

(noun)

Secular values, as opposed to traditional values, base morality on human faculties such as logic, reason, or moral intuition, rather than on purported supernatural revelation or guidance (which is the source of religious ethics).

Related Terms

  • Traditional Values

Examples of Secular Values in the following topics:

  • Value Clusters

    • With this economic shift, values began to change, too.
    • People from different backgrounds tend to have different sets of values, or value systems.
    • 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.
    • Secular values have the opposite preferences to the traditional values.
    • Industrialization tends to bring a shift from traditional values to secular ones.
  • Secularism and the Future of Religion

    • In studies of religion, modern Western societies are generally recognized as secular.
    • Some societies become increasingly secular as the result of social processes, rather than through the actions of a dedicated secular movement; this process is known as secularization.
    • Secularization is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions.
    • When discussing social structures, secularization can refer to differentiation.
    • Discuss the rise of secularism and its response in the West
  • Culture and Ethics

    • Culture reflects the moral values and ethical norms governing how people should behave and interact with others.
    • It is the sum of attitudes, values, goals, and practices shared by individuals in a group, organization, or society.
    • Cultural relativists consider this to be an ethnocentric view, as the universal set of values proposed by universalists are based on their set of values.
    • This diagram attempts to plot different countries by the importance of different types of values.
    • One axis represents traditional values to secular-rational values, while the other axis accounts for survival values and self-expression 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.
  • 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.
  • Nonmaterial Culture

    • Examples include any ideas, beliefs, values, or norms that shape a society.
    • Different cultures honor different values.
    • Beliefs can be religious or secular, and they can refer to any aspect of life.
    • 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.
    • Norms, values, and beliefs are all deeply interconnected.
  • Religion

    • Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and moral values.
    • Religion is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values.
    • Alternatively, children raised in secular homes tend not to convert to religion.
    • Secular people converted to religion and religious people became secular.
  • Defining Boundaries

    • This may be achieved by comparing the in-group to the out-group on some new dimension, changing the values assigned to the attributes of the group, and choosing an alternative out-group by which to compare the in-group.
    • Rituals, whether secular or religious, were for Durkheim the means by which groups maintained their symbolic and moral boundaries.
    • Mary Douglas has subsequently emphasized the role of symbolic boundaries in organizing experience, private and public, even in a secular society.
  • The Future of Religion

    • Secularization is a varied term with multiple definitions and levels of meaning.
    • The 'process' component of secularization would refer to how the theory is actualized.
    • It is in this sense that secularization has multiple definitions.
    • 1) When discussing social structures, secularization can refer to differentiation.
    • 5) When discussing populations, secularization can refer to a societal decline in levels of religiosity (as opposed to the individual-level secularization of definition four).
  • Trends in Markets

    • These trends are classified as secular for long-term frames, primary for medium-term frames, and secondary for short-term frames.
    • A secular market trend is a long-term trend that lasts 5 to 25 years and consists of a series of primary trends.
    • A secular bear market consists of smaller bull markets and larger bear markets, while a secular bull market consists of larger bull markets and smaller bear markets.
    • In a secular bull market, the prevailing trend is "bullish" or upward-moving.
    • In a secular bear market, the prevailing trend is "bearish" or downward-moving.
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