Taking the First Step

V) By definition, the word initiative means “the ability to assess and initiate things independently.” I’m not sure about you, but for me that makes no sense. When I hear the word initiative, I always think of “taking the initiative” or in other words, taking the first step. In my own words, I think it means being able to make the first move with self-determination and confidence. It is self-inspiration to see what needs to be done, then pursing the acts to achieve it. It is being able to act on your own and being self-sufficient and not needing help or advice from others. This is a word I hear in almost every class from all of my professors. They are constantly reminding us we need to have the initiative to do our homework and to be successful.

 

 

A new word I came across this week was Xenocentrism in my Sociology class. By definition, it is a culturally based tendency to value other cultures more highly than one’s owns. In others words, it is the belief that everything in your culture is bad, and everything in someone else is good. An example of this is Americans valuing Europeans products as higher quality than their own products.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenocentrism

Another new word that I discover during this week was moral subjectivism. I also came across this word during my Sociology class. By its definition, moral subjectivism is the theory that proper human conduct is to be determined by each person individually. Also, it is the view that there is no absolute truth, and that truth is merely in the eyes of the beholder. In other words it is the view of what is morally right and good for an individual. It is a theory that morality is based solely on society as a whole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_subjectivism