... ideas regarding what is desirable, correct, and good that most members of a society share. Values are so general and abstract that they do not explicitly specify which behaviors are acceptable and which are not. Values provide us with criteria and conceptions by which we evaluate people, objects, and events as to their relative worth, merit, beauty, or morality. ... move onto symbols and language: Norms and values are intangible aspects of social life, what scientists term nonmaterial culture. Symbols are acts or objects that have come to be socially accepted as standing for something e...

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