Understanding Human Values,9780743214568

Understanding Human Values

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ISBN13: 9780743214568
ISBN10: 0743214560
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary

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

Author Biography

Milton Rokeach was a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. His famous study, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti has been adapted into a screenplay, a stage play, and two operas. Rokeach received the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Harold Lasswell Award from the International Society of Political Psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
1(14)
Milton Rokeach
Part One: Societal, Institutional, and Organizational Values
Change and Stability in Values and Value Systems: A Sociological Perspective
15(32)
Robin M. Williams, Jr.
From Individual to Institutional Values: With Special Reference to the Values of Science
47(24)
Milton Rokeach
Values and the Organization: Suggestions for Research
71(11)
Patrick E. Connor
Boris W. Becker
Social Movements as Moral Confrontations: With Special Reference to Civil Rights
82(15)
Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
Irving Tallman
Part Two: Some Major Determinants and Consequences of Value Organization
Assimilation of Values in Migrant Groups
97(32)
Norman T. Feather
Change and Stability in American Value Systems, 1968--1971
129(19)
Milton Rokeach
Value Transition and Adult Development in Women: The Instrumentality--Terminality Sequence Hypothesis
148(6)
Carol D. Ryff
A Study of Values in the British House of Commons
154(25)
Donald D. Searing
British Politics and the Two-Value Model
179(13)
Raymond Cochrane
Michael Billig
Michael Hogg
The Two-Value Model of Political Ideology and British Politics
192(7)
Milton Rokeach
Part Three: Value Change Through Self-Awareness
Human Values, Smoking Behavior, and Public Health Programs
199(11)
William J. Conroy
Long-Term Value Change Initiated by Computer Feedback
210(16)
Milton Rokeach
Value Change Initiated by the Mass Media
226(15)
Keith R. Sanders
L. Erwin Atwood
Can Values Be Manipulated Arbitrarily?
241(18)
Milton Rokeach
Joel W. Grube
Part Four: Value Education Through Self-Awareness
Value Education in Educational Settings
259(11)
Milton Rokeach
An Approach to the Teaching of Philosophy
270(5)
Ronald H. Epp
Improving the Quality of Teaching Psychology
275(12)
James R. Lundy
Milton Rokeach
References 287(22)
Index 309

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