Abstract
The work is structured in 4 parts: I. Conceptual differentiations: value, belief, norm, mentality, attitude, interest, opinion, need, behavior; II. Restructuring scheme of the personality axiological components in a determined context; III. Professional values in the technical academic education: identification and hierarchy; IV. Conclu- sions. In the first part, there are made conceptual differentiations between the notions of belief, norm, mentality, attitude, interest, opinion, need, behavior, emphasizing thus on mutual aspects. In the second part of the paper, there is presented the global structuring of the axiological universe, the determinant factors of the value hierar- chy change in a given social-economic context, there is elaborated a new re-structuring scheme of the value components, there are identified specific mechanisms to the present Romanian society resistant to the value au- thentic change. In the third part, there is described D. E. Super’s theory that stands at the basis of the elaboration of the Professional Value Inventory. This was applied in our research on a sample of 120 students from the two technical faculties, getting thus a certain professional values hierarchy. The conclusions emphasize the confir- mation of the two hypothesis, the extrinsic motivating factors of the professional choice, behaviors and attitudes definition, values through immediate, material profit, of the individual welfare.
Highlights
The term value is specific to philosophy, being the core of one of its sub-branches: axiology that studies genesis, structure, interaction, knowledge, accomplishment, hierarchy and functions of the values in social life, the correlation among them, and the dynamic of the value systems
In explaining the meanings we give to the term value, an essential role belongs to: – the people’s purposes, projects, wishes, intentions – the creative activity from every field – the social relationship by which there is filtered the importance of the created products for that society
The first terms of belief, norm, mentality have a psycho-sociologic shade more intense, and the others are more shaped from a psychological point of view
Summary
Received February 10th, 2011; revised March 1st, 2011; accepted March 15th, 2011. The work is structured in 4 parts: I. Schwartz (1997) identify five more important aspects of the values: 1) Values are ideas, but not cold ones, but infused with sensitivity; 2) They refer to desideratum purposes and to behavior ways by which those purposes are promoted; 3) Values transcend specific actions and situations; 4) They are ordered both at society level as well as at the individual level, forming value systems; In the issue of the value genesis and nature, it is reiterated the report universalism-contextualism described in philosophy, anthropology, social psychology in previous studies and researches. After applying the professional values inventory and after centralizing the results, there was obtained their following general hierarchy Analyzing this professional values hierarchy, we can notice: - The first three places belong to the: lifestyle, physical ambiance and the relationships with the superiors - On the last 3 places there are work variety, leadership and prestige - This hierarchy confirms the first hypothesis according to which values change according to the socio-economic context in which they develop.
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