the american value system chapter 3 – section 1. traditional american values personal achievement...
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The American Value System
Chapter 3 – Section 1
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Traditional American Values
• Personal Achievement
– Based on believe in individualism and competition
– Evident in employment, and measured in power and wealth
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• Individualism– Base for personal achievement– Ones success comes from hard work
and initiative
• Work– Always valued– Not based on rewards– Mostly seen as virtue
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• Morality and Humanitarianism
– U.S. founded on religious faith, justice and equality
– Charity towards the less fortunate big part of American life
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• Efficiency and Practicality
– Every problem has a solution
– Objects judged on usefulness
– People judged on their ability to get things done
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• Progress and Material Comfort
– With hard work and determination, living standards will improve
– Science and technology make the world a better place
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• Equality and Democracy
– Human equality = equality of opportunity and equal chance of success
– Citizens have the right to express their opinions and choose their representatives in government
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• Freedom
– People have personal choice
– Protection from direct government interference in business and daily life
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• Other Core Values
– Education
– Religious values
– Romantic love
– Self-fulfillment
– Environment
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Changing Values
• Self-fulfillment– Development of one’s personality,
talents and potential
– Narcissism
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Social Control
Chapter 3 – Section 2
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Internalization of Norms
• Internalization– Norms become part of the
personality of an individual
– Individual conforms to society’s expectation
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Sanctions
• Sanctions – motivations for people to enforce conformity to the norms of society
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• Positive Sanctions
– Rewards for a particular, expected behavior
• Parents give rewards with praise
• Teacher reward students for turning in good work
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• Negative Sanctions
– Punishment or threat of punishment are used to enforce conformity
• Ridicules, fines, imprisonment or death
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• Formal Sanctions
– Reward or punishment given by organization or regulatory agency
• Negative: Low grades, suspension, termination or imprisonment
• Positive: Graduation certificates, raises in pay, promotion and awards
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• Informal Sanctions
– Spontaneous approval or disapproval by a group or individual
• Positive: standing ovations, compliments, smiles and gifts
• Negative: gossips, insults, and ridicules
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Social Control
• Social control is self-control
– Internalization of norms
– Agents perform external enforcement
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Social Change
Chapter 3 – Section 3
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Sources of Social Change
• Values and Beliefs– Ideology
• System of ideas or beliefs that justifies the social, moral, religious, political, or economic interests held by a group or society
– Social Movement• Long-term conscious effort to promote
or prevent social change
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• Technology
– Knowledge and tools that people use to manipulate their environment
– New technologies evolve through discovery and invention
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• Population
– Changes in population will bring changes in culture
– Cultural changes also result from changes in the average age of the population
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– Diffusion• Spread of cultural traits from one
society to another
– Reformulation• Adapting borrowed cultural traits
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• Physical Environment– Environment provides conditions
that encourage or discourage cultural change
• Wars and Conquests– Not common source of cultural
change, but result in the greatest change
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Resistance to Change
• Ethnocentrism
– The tendency to view one’s own culture or group as superior to others
– Ethnocentrism makes cultural borrowing difficult or impossible
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• Cultural Lag– The rapid change of some traits, and
the transformation of others that take a long time
• Vested Interests– A persons resist any change that
threatens their security or standard of living