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Impact of Socio-Economic and Cultural Changes on the Personality Development of Adolescents

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IMPACT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL CHANGES ON THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF ADOLESCENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. The enormous socio-economic and cultural changes coupled with technological revolution have unfolded an urgency to address issues pertaining to grooming up of young personalities beyond the usual concerns of discipline and education in Bangladesh. This is because of the remarkable changes being marked in all the strata of the socio-economic system owing to the first moving cultural transformation and globalization. Social changes may be defined as the significant alteration of social structures (patterns of action and interaction) including consequences and manifestations of such structures embodied in norms, values, cultural …show more content…

10. Social Values. Social values are related to the norms of a culture, but they are more general and abstract than norms. Norms are rules for behaviour in specific situations, while values identify what should be judged as good or bad. Flying the national flag on a national day is a norm, but it reflects the value of patriotism.

11. Value System. A value system refers to how an individual or a group of individuals organize their ethical or ideological values. One or more people can hold a value system. Likewise, a value system can apply to either one person or many.

A personal value system is held by and applied to one individual only. A communal value system is held by and applied to a community/group/ society. There remains a conflict between these two systems because one is based on individualism while the other based on collectivism. A rational value system organized to resolve this conflict between two such value systems takes some form of comprise between them. A rationalized and well-defined value system acts as a moral code.

Socio-Economic and Cultural Values Prevailing in Our Society

12. Nationalism – The Core National Value. The functions of culture in broader sense are related to perception, identity, motivation and communication. Culture also infuses nationalistic feeling that ultimately bears a unique identity of that society. Culture integrates nation with

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