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1. Family influences:
Family influences play a key role in determining an individuals belief about what
is right and what is wrong. The values that are built up from the very childhood
become an integral part of our lives.
Children learn from the behaviour of their parents and other members of the
family. Like father, like son probably has a profound meaning. In general, a
person who grows up in a family with high ethical standards that are consistently
followed is likely to develop high ethical standards also.
2. Peer influences:
As the children grow older, their friends and school mates with whom they
interact every day, influence their behaviour. Peer pressure, for example, can
sometimes determine if a person will engage in such questionable activates as
shoplifting, vandalism, and drug abuse and so on. It is generally perceived that
private schools and religions convent schools have higher standards of personal
behaviour than public schools. That may be one reason why most parents prefer
to send their children to private schools.
3. Life experiences:
As one goes through life, one experiments with a number of situations. It is said
that life is nothing but a collection of experiences, good and bad. Accordingly,
an experience and its consequences help in shaping a persons ethical or
unethical behaviour.
An unethical behaviour which results in negative consequences such as feelings
of guilt or legal punishment or social condemnation may tend not to be repeated.
Conversely, if a person does not feel any remorse or is actually rewarded for an
unethical activity, there would be a tendency to repeat such an activity.
5. Situational factors:
Situational factors are certain events, sometimes random, that have a potential to
determine behaviour that may or may not be consistent with a persons ethics.
For example, an otherwise honest, God fearing person may steal in a situation of
financial crisis. On the other hand, a drug dealer may become a saint by listening
to a preacher or seeing a friend die of drug overdose. Accordingly, a persons
behaviour may change from ethical to unethical and from unethical to ethical if
the situation forces him to do so.
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