Understanding Human Values

by Milton Rokeach

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439118887
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	06/30/2008
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	230
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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
Chapter 1	Introduction	1
Part 1	Societal, Institutional, and Organizational Values
Chapter 2	Change and Stability in Values and Value Systems: A Sociological Perspective	15
Chapter 3	From Individual to Institutional Values: With Special Reference to the Values of Science	47
Chapter 4	Values and the Organization: Suggestions for Research	71
Chapter 5	Social Movements as Moral Confrontations: With Special Reference to Civil Rights	82
Part 2	Some Major Determinants and Consequences of Value Organization
Chapter 6	Assimilation of Values in Migrant Groups	97
Chapter 7	Change and Stability in American Value Systems, 1968-1971	129
Chapter 8	Value Transition and Adult Development in Women: The Instrumentality-Terminality Sequence Hypothesis	148
Chapter 9	A Study of Values in the British House of Commons	154
Chapter 10	British Politics and the Two-Value Model	179
Chapter 11	The Two-Value Model of Political Ideology and British Politics	192
Part 3	Value Change Through Self-awareness
Chapter 12	Human Values, Smoking Behavior, and Public Health Programs	199
Chapter 13	Long-Term Value Change Initiated by Computer Feedback	210
Chapter 14	Value Change Initiated by the Mass Media	226
Chapter 15	Can Values Be Manipulated Arbitrarily?	241
Part 4	Value Education Through Self-awareness
Chapter 16	Value Education in Educational Settings	259
Chapter 17	An Approach to the Teaching of Philosophy	270
Chapter 18	Improving the Quality of Teaching Psychology	275
	References	287
	Index	309