OVERVIEW:
For this week's field
assignment, you will take a short online test that is supposed to tell you
something in the end about your moral framework and your deepest values.
In social science
terms, you are participating in a measure that has been developed
by social psychologists to fit individuals into a typology of
moral priorities, preferences, and alignments. Then you will reflect on the
experience-- not necessarily on the content of your "results," but
rather on the process and the measure itself.
WHAT TO DO:
Go to this link: https://www.yourmorals.org/schwartz.php and take the quiz you find there. Please
note that in order to save your results and get your "moral profile"
you would need to register for the site using the link at the top of the page
(open the link in a new window so you can easily jump back to the quiz
itself). While most of you will probably choose to do this out of
curiosity, it is optional. Because we are reflecting on the process rather
than the results, you are not required to register for the site.
Next, go to this
link: https://www.yourmorals.org/aboutus.php and read it through. Feel free to also
click around on the website and check it out in general.
WHAT TO WRITE:
After you take
the measure (the quiz) and read the "About Us" page,
think about why and how social scientists create and utilize
"measures" like this-- a systematic tool intended to collect an
observation about the world-- in their research. Also, think about your
experience of taking the test, and how it is similar to or different from other
ways of thinking and exploring about your values.
Compose a paragraph
(around 200-300 words) reflecting on these issues. Some questions you may want
to reflect on include:
- Did you feel the test
accurately mapped some key elements of your moral worldview and your core
values? (this would only apply if you registered and checked your results)
- What makes measures valid
or invalid, as a reflection of reality?
- What are some of the
difficulties of measuring social and human life using a
systematic tool?
- What is lost or left out when
you measure something complicated like morality?
- What is useful about measuring complex
social stuff like morals?
- Do you think the efforts of this team of social psychologists who created the website serve a purpose
Solution
Schwartz Value Survey
Morals values of any person are the key elements that give a
way to spend a life with integrity and spirituality. In society, values are
very important as they are the genuine determiners of attitudes, perceptions
and opinions of the society. To measure the scale of different perceptions of
different people about the values of political spectrum and culture, a
questionnaire was formed in which the questions related to guiding principles
or life were discussed. The whole survey was conducted by using the Schwartz Value
Survey. The test was designed to test the perceptions of different people
regarding their moral psychology and accurately mapped by containing key
elements of core values and morals. The authenticity and credibility of the
ambitions and for spiritual life are necessary to measure the scale of their
core values (Michael, Teel, & Dietsch, 2016) . Having the
potential of achieving goals, respect the traditions, conformity, benevolence,
stability of society, power to control the resources over people and
universalism are most important factors to measure the valid scale of morality.
Using systematic tool to measure the social and human life is probably not too
much easy as different people have different emotions, by using a tool to
measure the emotions can just give a direction of differences but not validity
of emotions. By measuring the morality of other people, one can lose their
building up expectations of self-determining that influences on society as
different people have different core values and different ways and rules to
live their lives but, on the other side, a person can achieve the inner peace
and increase their self-confidence by measuring the morality and set their role
models and values to live life effectively (Ingwer, Bardi, & Schwartz, 2017) . Moreover, the team
who created this website has the goal to understand the opinion of different
people about their political spectrum and culture. They want to understand the
thinking’s of other people and make them able to understand the different
values that people care.
Bibliography
Ingwer, B., Bardi, A., & Schwartz, S. (2017).
Does the value circle exist within persons or only across persons? Journal
of Personality 85, no. 2 , 151-162.
Michael, M., Teel, T., & Dietsch, A. (2016).
Implications of human value shift and persistence for biodiversity
conservation. Conservation Biology 30, no. 2, 287-296.
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