CONSIDERENTE PRIVIND ABORDAREA SOCIOLOGICĂ A VALORII

Abstract

The article deals with the concept of value and its development and evolution in sociology. The appearance of this concept is due to the processes characteristic to the modern society: globalization, industrialization, social progress, community development. The author exposes the evolution of morality, the values on which it relies from the point of view of different researchers: functionalists, rationalists, philosophers, psychologists and artists. The main issues developed in the text relate to the origin of values, their sources, value development and internalization, the relation between morality and value, the role the values play in the process of socialization. The conclusion leads to the idea that the study of value has a prospective dimension, as it is based on predicting human behavior and anticipation of value conflicts.