Understanding Social Responsibilities and Values
Understanding Social Behavior
Types of Responsibilities
- Promise of Speech: When one undertakes to do or say anything, they are responsible for fulfilling that promise.
- Contractual Promises: Signing a contract makes us responsible for the agreement.
- Assignments: When we assign responsibility to another, not only are they responsible, but we are also responsible for having assigned it.
- Occupations: When we are responsible for a job, we are also responsible for its outcome, whether good or bad.
- Citizen Rights: These are rules and regulations that we have a responsibility to fulfill and uphold for others.
- Customs: Upholding traditions and customs passed from generation to generation is a form of responsibility.
Almost all responsibilities have rewards and punishments, which may be material or moral.
Values in Daily Life
Values are defined as the quality by which a person, object, or event evokes appreciation, admiration, or esteem. That is, a value indicates the importance, significance, or effectiveness of something.
It is worth mentioning that people are able to develop individual values that provide us with a certain identity in society.
Values have long been important to society. As social animals, humans need to interact with others of the same species. Therefore, when interacting with another person, one should exhibit certain behavior; this behavior should govern their conduct and attitudes.
Values arise from humanity’s need to relate positively with their environment. With the formation of societies, certain rules or customs emerged regarding how each society should behave, thus causing values to play an indispensable role within society and in its functioning.
When we talk about value, we generally refer to material things, spiritual institutions, professions, civil rights, etc., which enable people to exist in a certain way.
Value, then, is a property of things or people. Everything, by the simple fact of existing, possesses some value. The same object (person or thing) can have several types of values; for example, a car can be useful in addition to being aesthetically pleasing. Value is thus perceived as good, as it is identified with what is good, perfect, or valuable.
Street Violence
How is violence used?
- Typically, perpetrators operate outside their villages and neighborhoods. They “go hunting,” especially on weekends and during holiday periods.
- They always attack in groups, targeting people who are isolated or belong to disadvantaged groups. They seek softer targets.
- Sometimes they attack specific people or target groups, but sometimes they attack the first person they find, or those they look at, or those who dress in ways they dislike, or those they find easier targets, and so on.
- They can attack without a word, but sometimes they later claim it was a street fight if they are arrested or reported.
- They want to create “free zones” (bars, clubs, plazas, or streets) where they attack anyone who displeases them.
Who is targeted?
In our country, this violence is directed mainly towards:
- Immigrant Youth
- Transgender people, prostitutes, leftists
- Beggars
- Addicts
- Disabled people
- Elderly people
- Gay people
- Journalists
- Gypsies
- Basque, Catalan, and other nationalists
- Ultras groups and fans of opposing teams