HECM 111: Values and beliefs

Values and beliefs

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Lesson 14:Functional concepts of Rural Sociology

Values and beliefs

Values refer to what people considered as valuable and desirable. It can be defined as expressions of preferences. Values are learned and tend to be linked together amicably to form patterns. It varies from culture to culture in accordance with relative worth given to them by each culture.

Constraints in the change of values

Familism- subordination of individual goals to family.
Fatalism - value for fate than in spite individuals abilities
Conservation - emphasis on the past to preserve and continue it are many a times constraints in changing the values.
Beliefs are closely related to values. They are the mental convictions one has about the truth of something. They can be referred as to what people believe as true.

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