value

Examples of value in the following topics:

• Values

  • Values are general principles or ideals upheld by a society.
  • Cultures have values that are largely shared by their members.
  • Different cultures reflect different values.
  • Different cultures reflect different values.
  • Members take part in a culture even if each member's personal values do not entirely agree with some of the normative values sanctioned in the culture.

• Value Clusters

  • With this economic shift, values began to change, too.
  • People from different backgrounds tend to have different sets of values, or value systems.
  • In general, the World Values Survey has revealed two major axes along which values cluster: (1) a continuum from traditional to secular values and (2) a continuum from survival to self-expression.
  • Secular values have the opposite preferences to the traditional values.
  • The transition from industrial society to knowledge society is linked to a shift from survival values to self-expression values.

• Values as Binders

  • They are likewise using values as blinders.
  • Values and value systems are guidelines that determine what is important in a society.
  • Types of values include ethical/moral value, doctrinal/ideological (religious, political, etc.) values, social values, and aesthetic values.
  • Values can act as blinders if people take their own personal values (or their society's values) as universal truths and fail to recognize the diversity of values held across people and societies.
  • Values can act as blinders if people fail to recognize the diversity of values held across people and cultures, and assume their own society's values are universal truths.

• Ideal vs. Real Culture

  • Any given culture contains a set of values that determine what is important to the society; these values can be idealized or realized.
  • When we talk about American values, we often have in mind a set of ideal values.
  • Along with every value system comes exceptions to those values.
  • A realized value system, as opposed to an ideal value system, contains exceptions to resolve the contradictions between ideal values and practical realities in everyday circumstances.
  • Whereas we might refer to ideal values when listing American values (or even our own values), the values that we uphold in daily life tend to be real values.

• Value-Added Perspective

  • Identify the six necessary conditions, according to the value-added perspective, that contribute to a social movement.

• Value Contradictions

  • Although various values often reinforce one another, these clusters of values may also include values that contradict one another.
  • Although value clusters generally work together so that various values reinforce one another, at times, these clusters of values may also include values that contradict one another.
  • Value contradictions can arise between individual and communal value systems.
  • A value contradiction could be based on a difference in how people rank the value of things, or on fundamental value conflict.
  • People whose personal values conflict with communal values may try to change communal values through protest.

• An Overview of U.S. Values

  • Achievement and success are typical American values.
  • Cultures have values that are largely shared by their members.
  • Different cultures reflect different values.
  • However, the term "family values" is arguably a modern politicized subset of traditional values, which is a larger concept, anthropologically speaking.
  • "Family values" is arguably a modern politicized subset of traditional values.

• Nonmaterial Culture

  • For example, patriotism is a type of value, and is therefore part of non-material culture.
  • Examples include any ideas, beliefs, values, or norms that shape a society.
  • Different cultures honor different values.
  • Members take part in a culture even if each member's personal values do not entirely agree with some of the normative values sanctioned in the culture.
  • Norms, values, and beliefs are all deeply interconnected.

• Emerging Values

  • Values tend to change over time, and the dominant values in a country might shift as that country undergoes economic and social change.
  • Values tend to change over time.
  • For example, most young adults today share similar values.
  • Post-materialist values emphasize non-material values like freedom and the ability to express oneself.
  • Because values are set when people are young, value change can be slow.

• Value Neutrality in Sociological Research

  • Assigning moral values to social phenomena is an inescapable result of being part of society.
  • This inevitably renders truly value-free research inconceivable; however despite this, sociologists should strive for value neutrality.
  • To do this, they must be conscious of their own personal values.
  • Is value neutrality possible?
  • Value neutrality does not mean having no opinions, however.