Artifact 9 – Value Assessment
Writing about my daily activities and they way I view my values made me realize that I need to incorporate some more activity into my life. I would like to diversify and try new things to expand my mindset and try and understand other people’s values and beliefs. I believe that my life should be involved with other human beings and take into account the importance of community values. After reading my post, it came clear to me that my values come from my family and my friends, and without they’re surrounding, I would be a completely different person.
When I think about the external and internal factors that play in my daily values I think about my childhood and growing up. Family, friends, elementary school, Hebrew school, sports, music, food, and every other minor factor that shapes a person into who they are. “The proposition that individual human beings are programmed into their values, either by the influence of genes on personality or by social pressures, can neither be proven nor refuted”(pg. 8).
Its so hard to determine what it is exactly that makes you the person you are because we are constantly changing, yet it has to be a mixture of everything. As I continue to grow, I want to try and pinpoint what it is that is making me change and try to understand why I make the decisions that I do. This will help me come to a conclusion of how my values and beliefs are formed.
http://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad250shuette/files/2010/09/20120717_A-Question-of-Values-CH1-2.pdf