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Title: | Values in Search of an Identity |
Authors: | Sheth, N.R. |
Keywords: | Spiritualism Social justice Self-discipline Scientific rationalism Vedic literature |
Issue Date: | Apr-1995 |
Publisher: | Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata |
Series/Report no.: | Vol. 1;No. 1 |
Abstract: | This paper makes an attempt to examine the various facets of human values in the background of the widely shared popular beliefs about erosion of values. A random sample of elite opinions on the nature of decline of values brings out the difficulties involved in identifying values for social analysis. Values are an integral part of the religious, spiritual and governmental spheres of social behaviour within a culture. It is argued that the problem of erosion of values is shared across cultures and has existed throughout the history of human society. It is suggested that material and spiritual values follow a dialectical process of coexistence and conflict. The current wave of concern over degeneration of values is explained in relation to the unprecedented complexity of today's global society and the socio-economic challenges posed by this complexity for the individual and the society at various levels. This discussion is followed by a brief review of the recent contributions of social sciences to the concept of values and their decline in modern society. Finally, some thoughts are expressed, from a sociologist's vantage point, regarding the multi-dimensional problem of values in the emerging global culture. |
Description: | N.R. Sheth, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India; Director, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. p. 75 - 91 |
URI: | https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/4976 https://doi.org/10.1177/097168589500100108 |
ISSN: | 0971-6858 (print version) |
Appears in Collections: | Issue 1, April 1995 |
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