Description of Values

  • Political - The structure or affairs of government, politics, or the state; activities or affairs of politicians or political parties; methods or tactics used in managing a political body such as the state; having a definite or organized policy or structure of government.

  • Dominance - The desire to have more power than others.

  • Economic - The use and exchange of money and/or materials; the development, production, and management of material wealth, as of a country, household, or business enterprise; the necessities of life.

  • Ecological - The relationships between organisms and their environments.

  • Religious - A specific unified system based on faith or dogma.

  • Ethical/Moral - Ethical standards of what is right or just in behavior, arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong in relation to human action on present and future responsibilities.

  • Scientific - Knowledge gained by systematic study; the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of natural phenomena.

  • Cultural - Pertaining to the continuation or preservation of human knowledge, beliefs, values, arts, customs, behavior patterns, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought typical of a population or community at a given time.

  • Educational - Pertaining to the accumulation, use, and communication of knowledge; the provision of training or knowledge, especially via formal schooling.

  • Aesthetic - The appreciation of form, composition, and color through the senses.

  • Social - Shared human empathy, feelings, and status.

  • Recreational - Pertaining to leisure activities.

  • Egocentric - A focus on individual self-satisfaction and fulfillment.

  • Ethnocentric - A focus on the fulfillment of ethnic/cultural goals.

  • Well-being - The state of being happy, healthy, or prosperous.

  • Health - A state of complete physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.