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Typical American Values?

Posted : 9/23/2006 9:05:32 PM

I have to socially analyze a typically American value, belief or worldview for my Cross Cultural Studies of Socialization class... Identify the value, discuss in what ways the value is socialized, identify the effect of this value on an individuals identity, and contemplate the effect on society...

I was thinking of using the value of choice.... but.... I was hoping to come up with something a little more original....

Any ideas?

alieliza

Posted : 9/23/2006 10:21:02 PM

For anyone interested, a website: [linkhttp://gurusoftware.com/Gurunet/Personal/Topics/Values.htm]http://gurusoftware.com/Gurunet/Personal/Topics/Values.htm[/link] and the values it lists:

Accomplishment, Success

Accountability

Accuracy

Adventure

All for one & one for all

Beauty

Calm, quietude, peace

Challenge

Change

Cleanliness, orderliness

Collaboration

Commitment

Communication

Community

Competence

Competition

Concern for others

Content over form

Continuous improvement

Cooperation

Coordination

Country, love of (patriotism)

Creativity

Customer satisfaction

Decisiveness

Delight of being, joy

Democracy

Discipline

Discovery

Ease of Use

Efficiency

Equality

Excellence

Fairness

Faith

Family

Family feeling

Flair

Freedom

Friendship

Fun

Global view

Good will

Goodness

Gratitude

Hard work

Harmony

Honesty

Honor

Independence

Inner peace, calm, quietude

Innovation

Integrity

Justice

Knowledge

Leadership

Love, Romance

Loyalty

Maximum utilization
(of time, resources)

Meaning

Merit

Money

Openness

Peace, Non-violence

Perfection (e.g. of details)

Personal Growth

Pleasure

Positive attitude

Power

Practicality

Preservation

Privacy

Problem Solving

Progress

Prosperity, Wealth

Punctuality

Quality of work

Regularity Resourcefulness

Respect for others

Responsiveness

Results-oriented

Rule of Law

Safety

Satisfying others

Security

Self-givingness

Self-reliance

Service
(to others, society)

Simplicity

Skill

Speed

Spirit in life (using)

Stability

Standardization

Status

Strength
Succeed; A will to-
Success, Achievement

Systemization

Teamwork

Timeliness

Tolerance

Tradition

Tranquility

Trust

Truth

Unity

Variety

Wisdom

My favorites from the above are:
Communication

Community

Cooperation

Global View

Knowledge

Peace

Progress

Tolerance...

But, for my assignment, I chose success, as it is one that is (pretty) universal as an American (as a whole) value... and easy to deconstruct in terms of how it is socialized, and what its implications are for the individual and society.

But.... any input would still be appreicated and welcomed!

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Posted : 9/23/2006 11:56:39 PM

I'm going to say *accountability, committment and tolerance*. I'd like to say *cleanliness* but that one is getting to be a real problem for me - between the dust and the dog hair ....

Joyce

loveukaykay

Posted : 9/24/2006 11:43:56 AM

Nature, Pets, Pride[&:]

jeano

Posted : 9/24/2006 12:38:56 PM

Independence is the MAIN American value. We are far less communally motivated than just about any other culture. You could contrast us with the Japanese, for instance, or with a tribal culture.

jones

Posted : 9/24/2006 2:13:17 PM

Anything along the lines of self-reliance, independence, or (not on the list) individualism are what I always think of as the quintessential American values.

spiritdogs

Posted : 9/25/2006 8:07:41 PM

ORIGINAL: jeano

Independence is the MAIN American value. We are far less communally motivated than just about any other culture. You could contrast us with the Japanese, for instance, or with a tribal culture.

You read my mind, jeano. Americans are individualists, if nothing else. It's not always a bad thing, as I think it has led to much in the way of invention and innovation.