Acquired Values

Values or principles that we, humans uphold are often of two kinds. The profound human values are that of morale. These are very essential and they define who we are. But then there are those other values which we acquire as a result of being a part of a group say, a religious group or a group of people who belong to the same religion. These values can be classified as personal and cultural values.



Now, the theory of the value system goes something like this. We first setup a set of basic or core values as we would like to call and then base rest of the values around these set of values. Coming to the acceptance of values, it is very relative and subjective if you think about it. They vary based on the culture, ethnicity, demographics and so many more factors. So, there are no set of universal values and it is all very relative.


Personal values are those which you develop over a period of time and are subjected to change based on the change in the outer world. You develop these intrinsic set of values from childhood and they change as you grow up based on the socio economic factors and other social conditions.



Cultural values are those which are largely shared by a group of people who belong to a sorority or a community. These are mostly based on ones ethnicity and the kind of people one grows up with. Again these are subjected to change too. If a set of people express that some value is poses a threat to the community, then such values will be modified or omitted by the sorority.