Abstract
This chapter traces the development of value theory in sociology and opens with Weber’s influential ideas about value rationality and value spheres. The chapter then outlines Parsons’ idea that values are abstract goals that play a crucial role in explaining social action. Like psychologists, sociologists acknowledge values as essential aspects of the self and have conceptualized the relationship between individual and social value systems. Sociologists are interested in the relationship between the social and the individual, and some suggest that changes in the value systems of individuals are linked to cultural, social, and economic changes. In a section on value change, the chapter focuses on the influential modernization theory (Inglehart).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Interdisciplinary Value Theory |
| Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan Publishers |
| Chapter | 3 |
| Pages | 33-50 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-10733-7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-10732-0 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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- Sociology
- Value change
- Value theory
- Value
- Modernization theory