Social Ethics in High School Students' Short Stories and Their Relevance to Humanism

The purpose of this study is to describe the social ethics found in the short stories of grade XI students at Srandakan 1 Public Senior High School. The method used is a qualitative descriptive method combining the Sudaryanto model and the Miles Huberman & Saldana model. Sudaryanto's reading and note-taking technique was used for data collection, and the data was analyzed using the Miles Huberman & Saldana model. The results of the study showed that the collection of short stories written by 11th grade students at Srandakan 1 Public High School depicted eight social ethics that are relevant to humanism in shaping students' characters and encouraging them to understand human values. These social ethics include empathy, social awareness, caution, responsibility, generosity, mutual cooperation, mutual assistance, and kinship. The social ethics present in the short story written by an eleventh-grade student at State Senior High School 1 Srandakan are depicted in the characters' dialogues and behaviors. The relevance of humanism in the short story can shape students' characters and encourage them to understand human values.