strategy
Recreating value systems
Synonyms:
Coping with disintegrating value systemsCreating value systems
Creating sociological attitudes
Revamping outmoded values
Reforming values
Encouraging renewal of values
Description:
Focuses on societal re-education and re-motivation to give each individual the possibility of seeing his life as significant in the post-modern scientific age and totally participating in the social structures on behalf of all men. Implementation:
Tactics include: teaching socio-analytic processes; balancing family socio-dynamics; revitalizing community structures; training for community life; and sustaining primal communities. Claim:
There is no such thing as a purely material crisis; the crisis in values is at the root of all issues. The present world crises, including increasing crime, drugs, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, the destruction of the environment, the population explosion and the impotence of governments, are examples of the worldwide erosion of philosophical and moral guidance in the conduct and interpretation of life. In addition, the intensification and diffusion of the market economy is endangering indigenous value systems, religious teachings and social wisdom. Progress in technology and science must be accompanied by a deeper understanding of human nature, morality and the natural world. Narrower:
Continuing communal wisdomRecovering commitment ethicApplying environmental ethicsBalancing family socio-dynamicsTeaching socio-analytic processRevitalizing community structuresDeveloping value codes for businessDeveloping codes of conduct for public servantsEnhancing international attitudinal integrationEstablishing national advisory groups on ethics for sustainable developmentIntegrating sustainable development ethics into education, training and research programmesRestoring deference Constrained by:
Preserving common values Facilitates:
Bearing radical ethicsRe-inventing democracyOvercoming indifferenceEmbodying community valuesApplying professional ethicsEradicating harmful social attitudesRe-orienting attitudes to resource allocationEstablishing accountability within the workforce Facilitated by:
Expanding attitudesAllowing ethical decayResearching value systemsCreating sociological manEducating cross-culturallyStudying traditional formsCultivating moral capacityPromoting values in educationDiscussing journalistic ethicsPromoting ethical policy makingExposing irrelevant social valuesProviding sufficient medical ethicsRequiring authentic application of science Problems:
Collapse of common valuesEthical vacuum
Immoral public policy
Indifference to suffering
Misconceived moral equivalence
Moral hedonism
Moral pretension
Moralism
Obsolete educational values
Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images
Values:
ValueOutmodedDisintegration Subjects:
Societal Problems → ObsolescenceSociology → Sociology
Psychology → Psychology
Development → Reform
Conservation → Restoration
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
