Supported Values
The value I most strongly support is freedom. As this list is based upon U.S values, everything on it stems from freedom itself. It is not a thing we as a country achieve and be done with, it must be constantly defended. Specific to me is how I have based my life around it. My career field, regardless of it being military or intelligence, is to keep the country safe and all that it values. Henslin writes “…roles become incorporated into our self-concept, especially roles for which we prepare long and hard and that become part of our everyday lives.” (pg 113) I have been preparing since the seventh grade. I have made it my purpose to defend freedom. Henslin mentions personal freedom in his description which is part of it but …show more content…
Now while I might like nice things, I don’t go out of my way to increase my comfort and my level is already high enough. I don’t like the search for increased material comfort because a person can only do so much, and if said person focuses on physical objects and its derived status, they aren’t focusing on becoming a better parent, friend, family member or person. Henslin said in regards to Melvin Kohns work “Middle class parents, in contrast, focus more on developing their children’ curiosity, self-expression, and self-control.”(Henslin 79) This suggests that the middle class who are usually economically stable, don’t have the need to pursue increased material comfort and haves struck a balance with the comfort they have and the development of their children. If that same middle class started to value material comfort a lot more, the offspring of them might learn to value material possessions in their childhood more than becoming a decent human …show more content…
In my younger years my reference group was the classmates I had but over time I started to change that. The older I got and started to think about what I want to do with my life the people I compared myself to changed. In the text when Henslin was talking about graduate school he wrote “you would consider their standards as to evaluate your grades or writing skills.” (Henslin 156) Once I knew life path to go down I adopted the standards of those I seek to be like. Mainly war heroes. It’s fairly evident that the standards of those individuals are much higher than any classmate I could compare myself to. My values became more focused around service and being a part of something bigger than myself, whereas the values I had with classmates as my reference group was focused on college and a high paying
The value I most strongly support is freedom. As this list is based upon U.S values, everything on it stems from freedom itself. It is not a thing we as a country achieve and be done with, it must be constantly defended. Specific to me is how I have based my life around it. My career field, regardless of it being military or intelligence, is to keep the country safe and all that it values. Henslin writes “…roles become incorporated into our self-concept, especially roles for which we prepare long and hard and that become part of our everyday lives.” (pg 113) I have been preparing since the seventh grade. I have made it my purpose to defend freedom. Henslin mentions personal freedom in his description which is part of it but …show more content…
Now while I might like nice things, I don’t go out of my way to increase my comfort and my level is already high enough. I don’t like the search for increased material comfort because a person can only do so much, and if said person focuses on physical objects and its derived status, they aren’t focusing on becoming a better parent, friend, family member or person. Henslin said in regards to Melvin Kohns work “Middle class parents, in contrast, focus more on developing their children’ curiosity, self-expression, and self-control.”(Henslin 79) This suggests that the middle class who are usually economically stable, don’t have the need to pursue increased material comfort and haves struck a balance with the comfort they have and the development of their children. If that same middle class started to value material comfort a lot more, the offspring of them might learn to value material possessions in their childhood more than becoming a decent human …show more content…
In my younger years my reference group was the classmates I had but over time I started to change that. The older I got and started to think about what I want to do with my life the people I compared myself to changed. In the text when Henslin was talking about graduate school he wrote “you would consider their standards as to evaluate your grades or writing skills.” (Henslin 156) Once I knew life path to go down I adopted the standards of those I seek to be like. Mainly war heroes. It’s fairly evident that the standards of those individuals are much higher than any classmate I could compare myself to. My values became more focused around service and being a part of something bigger than myself, whereas the values I had with classmates as my reference group was focused on college and a high paying