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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cLfd50BdcE: norms (10:15).
Norms are based on values. Values are things or behaviours which are seen as
important by a large group of people. Although an individual also can have personal
values.
Examples of values:
Q: Each of you will get a paper with either a value, either a norm. Find out which
value belongs to which norm. Copy the norms and values you found in your
notebook. (Values and norms can be found at the end of this document)
Ethics is philosophizing about questions about right and wrong. If you philosophize
about right and wrong, you think about how people should behave. It is not about
what people actually do, but what they should do. There can be a gap between what
people actually do and should have done. This means ethics has to do with norms
and values.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IazZLVwUJUA: norms and values (1:44).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjhQQqrSLr8: norms, values and cultures (3:03).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlsWtHx1L9s: cultural differences (6:51).
Q: What will you do? Decide what you will do in the following situations and name
the values involved.
- The teacher asks you to get something in next doors classroom. Lying on the
desk in next doors classroom is the test you will have to do tomorrow. And you
see it! Will you do?
- You really want to have clothes from a specific brand which is expensive.
You know your parents cannot afford to buy them at this moment. Will you do?
- You buy something which is fairly expensive in a department store. The
cashier gives back 10 Euros too much. What will you do?
- You buy a bunch of flowers in the flower shop in your neighbourhood. You
know the owner. The owner gives back 5 Euros too much. What will you do?
Chapter 3, Right and wrong _ BC Broekhin, Margot Maassen