Journal article
Values: Reviving a Dormant Concept
Annual review of sociology, Vol.30(1), pp.359-393
08/01/2004
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110640
Abstract
Over the past decades, the concept of values has gone in and out of fashion within sociology. Relatively recent advances in both the conceptualization and measurement of values offer the potential for a reincorporation of values into sociological work. Sociologists often employ cursory understandings of values, imbuing values with too much determinism or viewing them as too individually subjective. The concept is employed sporadically in sociological subdisciplines. This review maps out the contours of the various approaches to linking values with culture, social structure, and individual behavior. We discuss theoretical and empirical approaches to values, organizing the broad literature to address three questions: (a) What are values? (b) Where do values come from? and (c) What do values do? We identify important research findings and suggest areas for future inquiry.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Values: Reviving a Dormant Concept
- Creators
- Steven Hitlin - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillJane Allyn Piliavin - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Annual review of sociology, Vol.30(1), pp.359-393
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110640
- ISSN
- 0360-0572
- eISSN
- 1545-2115
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2004
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306239302771
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