ISSN 2411-9563 (Print) ISSN 2312-8429 (Online) European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research Sep. Dec. 2017 Vol.11 Nr. 2 34 The Value Orientations Of The Adolescents: Differences And Similarities Lulzim Murtezani Faculty of Philosophy, State University of Tetovo, Street Ilinden bb 1200, (FYROM) Macedonia Abstract The values, i.e. the value orientations are significant elements of a person's constitution. They mainly depend on the context, i.e. the culture to which the individual belongs. Hence, the factors, such as the family surrounding (the degree of education of the parents and their style of upbringing children), the national and religious background, and other demographic characteristics have a significant role in their formation. Having these influences adequately, the goal of this research is to examine the value preferences of the youth from different cultural origins. Keywords: Value orientations, hierarchy of values, life styles, educational family atmosphere, cultural context. Introduction The human values are one of the many concepts in modern psychology. The values of the individual are important and almost inseparable from the personal characteristics, such as the traits. According to Allport (1961), the orientations towards values are levels which reveal the human traits. Without doubt the values depend on the context, experience, and the culture to which we belong to. Hence, the nurture and forming of the values is explained by taking into account the cultural factors: racial and ethnic belonging, family influence, the mass – media, the parenting style of education, films etc. Adequately to these influences, the expectations for the changes of the value priorities (preferences) along time are logical. According to this logic, in the post – socialist countries, the newly formed changes of the transition imply forming of different values and life orientations of the people as frames of behaviour in a democratic society. But, is this so simple having in mind that people do not react the same to the external influences due to their social and cultural differences? In this context, we need to mention that the needs or the innate temperaments are an important source of the basic value orientations (Rokeach, 1973). Along with these personal traits, the factors such as education, age, gender and profession have an important influence on their value priorities (Inglehart, 1997; Schwartz & Bardi, 1997). Usually, the individuals have the same experiences (traumas, relations with the parents, immigrations), which largely determine the evaluation of the people regarding the importance of the values (Feather, 1995). Hence, we can say that the type of the preferred values of people depicts the different personal and social influences on them. We assume that if the life experience is different in terms of the culture to which the young people belong to, they will consequently prefer different values. Analogously to the previously stated, we chose to scrutinize this delicate question in young people which differ according to gender, education of their parents and cultural origin. 1. Method of research Adequately to the fact that the research is not conceptualized in a sense of determination of the causal relation of the variables, a non – experimental approach was used as a method of the research. 1.1 Subjects and procedure of collecting of data The sample of the research consists of students (a total of 117), aged 17 to 18, from high schools in two cities in the west part of Macedonia (Tetovo and Gostivar), as typical representatives of communities with mixed ethnic composition of the population.