Print Email Facebook Twitter Sociology and Value Title Sociology and Value Author Steinert, S. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Date 2023 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). Subject SociologyValue changeValue theoryValueModernization theory To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:82da0829-5e86-4a75-96ed-3844f1d97dd7 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10733-7_3 Publisher Palgrave MacMillan Publishers Embargo date 2023-10-09 ISBN 978-3-031-10732-0 Source Interdisciplinary Value Theory Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights © 2023 S. Steinert Files PDF Sociology_and_Value.pdf 521.67 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:82da0829-5e86-4a75-96ed-3844f1d97dd7/datastream/OBJ/view