Problem
Culturally conditioned self-gratification
Other Names:
Culturally conditioned hedonism Nature:
Among Western educated or influenced people, the acculturation received from the family tends to condition the individual to operate from a search for psychological well-being and adjustment rather than from the aim of global socio-interrelatedness. The result in society of such gratification-seeking is the disruption of conventional bonds of relationship like marriage, and an incapacity to appropriate the needs of others beyond immediate relations. A spectator mentality toward mass suffering is created, and materialism substituted for social consciousness.
Broader Problems:
Lack of meaningful personal and social paradigmsReinforced parochialism of internal values and images Aggravates:
Indifference to sufferingSocial environmental degradation from recreation and tourismSelf-centred security image Subject(s):
Culture → Culture Individuation → Individuation
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
08.03.2022 – 17:09 CET