Understanding Human Values

Name: Understanding Human Values
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ISBN: 9780743214568

ISBN-10: 0743214560

ISBN-13: 9780743214568

Edition: 2000

Authors: Milton Rokeach

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This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values.

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 7/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 230
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Julia Markus is the author of several books, including the award-winning novel Uncle and two previous biographies, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning and Across an Untried Sea, which dealt with women of genius in the nineteenth century. She is professor of English and director of Creative Writing at Hofstra University.



Preface



Introduction




Societal, Institutional, and Organizational Values



Change and Stability in Values and Value Systems: A Sociological Perspective




From Individual to Institutional Values: With Special Reference to the Values of Science




Values and the Organization: Suggestions for Research




Social Movements as Moral Confrontations: With Special Reference to Civil Rights




Some Major Determinants and Consequences of Value Organization



Assimilation of Values in Migrant Groups




Change and Stability in American Value Systems, 1968-1971




Value Transition and Adult Development in Women: The Instrumentality-Terminality Sequence Hypothesis




A Study of Values in the British House of Commons




British Politics and the Two-Value Model




The Two-Value Model of Political Ideology and British Politics




Value Change Through Self-awareness



Human Values, Smoking Behavior, and Public Health Programs




Long-Term Value Change Initiated by Computer Feedback




Value Change Initiated by the Mass Media




Can Values Be Manipulated Arbitrarily?




Value Education Through Self-awareness



Value Education in Educational Settings




An Approach to the Teaching of Philosophy




Improving the Quality of Teaching Psychology



References


Index