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Analysing Social Values in Identification; A Framework for Research on the Representation and Implementation of Values
Author(s) -
Menard Rusten
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/jtsb.12087
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , identification (biology) , relation (database) , social representation , social psychology , interpersonal communication , epistemology , interpersonal relationship , representation (politics) , psychology , action (physics) , social relation , order (exchange) , sociology , computer science , data mining , philosophy , botany , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , machine learning , politics , political science , law , economics , biology
This article contributes to the concept of social values by presenting analytical tools that explore how social values are classified, re‐presented and interpersonally performed in the construction of identities. I approach social values as classificatory systems of acceptability and desirability that are collectively generated. The meanings of social values are embedded in culture and in power imbalanced social relations; they constantly undergo reformulation in identification processes and are also used to define the social order. I suggest that social values can be analysed in relation to aspects of representation and interpersonal positioning that are also involved in the construction of identities: Value classifications involve compartmentalising moral orders into e.g. good, desirable, important, necessary; value projects are concerned with how value classifications and content occupy roles and become oriented to action; and value positioning is concerned with how narrators align with value classifications and projects as well as with individuals and groups seen to share or reject such classifications and projects.