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Social Sciences - Anthropology / Rituals | | German term or phrase: Werteverhalten | Context is academic paper about rituals and ritual behaviour, here about the importance of symbols:
Wesentliche menschliche Dimensionen wie die Emotionalität, die Qualität zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen, die Übereinstimmung im Werteverhalten und viele andere kulturelle Vorgänge blieben den Menschen ohne die Symbolsprache verschlossen.
Moral behaviour? |
|  Patricia WillKudoZ activityQuestions: 449 ( 3 open) ( 15 without valid answers) ( 14 closed without grading) Answers: 90
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| | moral behaviour | Explanation:
Sorry to add something so similar to the other answers, but actually there's an important distinction to be made.
I 'd be cautious to use *value-based behaviour* (or norm-based behaviour) as it is a term used in the rational choice tradition and increasingly in business contexts (see google hits). As far as *moral values* is concerned, the behavioural aspect needs to be emphasised (it's not just the values that are consistent but the behaviour).
I'd translate as:
*... the consistency / congruity of moral behaviour ...*
Paraphrase: It's the use of symbols (=language) that allows people to agree on common moral values and to stick to them consistently at an intersubjective level.
*Moral behaviour* is definitely a term that is very common in sociology and psychology and that crops up a lot in academic publications in these areas.
See: www.a-levelpsychology.co.uk/common/supplementary/1841692514...
I can also give the following quote from a review on Durkheim's sociology of values as a corroboration (article unfortunately not online but can send to you as as pdf):
*But Durkheim did not argue that morality consists of mindless conformity to prevailing opinion [...] **Moral behavior**, in Durkheim's view, is behavior in harmony with the 'true nature of society.' By this he means the society's ideal picture of itself etc.* (Clanton 1976: 673)
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Stefan Hollstein
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Local time: 22:01
| Grading comment Hard to choose between these but I think this comes closest.
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Explanation:
Sorry to add something so similar to the other answers, but actually there's an important distinction to be made.
I 'd be cautious to use *value-based behaviour* (or norm-based behaviour) as it is a term used in the rational choice tradition and increasingly in business contexts (see google hits). As far as *moral values* is concerned, the behavioural aspect needs to be emphasised (it's not just the values that are consistent but the behaviour).
I'd translate as:
*... the consistency / congruity of moral behaviour ...*
Paraphrase: It's the use of symbols (=language) that allows people to agree on common moral values and to stick to them consistently at an intersubjective level.
*Moral behaviour* is definitely a term that is very common in sociology and psychology and that crops up a lot in academic publications in these areas.
See: www.a-levelpsychology.co.uk/common/supplementary/1841692514...
I can also give the following quote from a review on Durkheim's sociology of values as a corroboration (article unfortunately not online but can send to you as as pdf):
*But Durkheim did not argue that morality consists of mindless conformity to prevailing opinion [...] **Moral behavior**, in Durkheim's view, is behavior in harmony with the 'true nature of society.' By this he means the society's ideal picture of itself etc.* (Clanton 1976: 673)
| Stefan Hollstein
Germany
Local time: 22:01
Native speaker of:  German
PRO pts in category: 4
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| | Grading comment | Hard to choose between these but I think this comes closest. |
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