Values often suggest how people should behave, but they don’t accurately reflect how people do behave. Values portray an ideal culture, the standards society would like to embrace and live up to. But ideal culture differs from real culture. In an ideal culture, there would be no traffic accidents, murders, poverty, or racial tension. But in real culture, police officers, lawmakers, educators, and social workers constantly strive to prevent or address these issues. American teenagers are encouraged to value celibacy. However, the number of unplanned pregnancies among teens reveals that the ideal alone is not enough to spare teenagers the potential consequences of having sex.
This section of this chapter provides really good topics to annotate on. I believe that especially in generation Z, value lacks effectiveness and importance because of how everyone in my generation care more about perception and reward rather than living up to values I believe that not many people my age even care to live up to their values and beliefs because of the fact that everyone is so engulfed in social media and disregard how dangerous social media's influence can truly be