2. Background
• Social values are universal cultural standards
that advocates good and bad, right and
wrong, desirable and undesirable.
• Values can evaluates the social norms
effectively in comprehensive way
• Values are rational, patterned interaction,
objective etc.
3. Definition by:
Young and Mack: Values are assumption, largely
unconcious of what is right and important.
- It ecompasses rationality, reason and truth
whether they are progressive or culrtrual lag
- They are organized within a personality of
individual
- The fundamental values accepted universally are:
Respect for human dignity, democracy, provision
of private property, individual freedom and
choice, right to speak and write, respect for
diversity, right to live and privacy
4. Types of Social Values
1. General Social Values
They are higher standard and universally
accpted human values. Example- Democracy,
fundamental human rights, social equaility,
justice, women empowerment, cultural
recognition and distribution etc. Values are
expected to follow by all the nations of UN
members throughout the world.
5. 2. Specific social values:
These values are followed in specific society. It
differs like from religion, class, geography etc.
Muslim has its own values towards marriage,
food items, wearing and following the rituals
unlike Hindus.
Nepalese society has its own specific values
rooted in culture. It differs from society to
society and state to state.
6. Characteristics of social values
1. Social values are universal cultural standards.
2. They advocate for truth, realities and for
universal ides
3. They can be explicit and implicit values
4. social values are dynamic
5. They speak what is right and wrong
6. It helps to enrich human civilization
7. Values are hierarchy arranged
