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ORIGINS Research suggests both human beings and at least some other sentient organisms can hold values, which express themselves in behavioural dispositions - the predisposition to act by choice in a certain way, when faced with a certain condition or stimulus which permits different responses. The expression of this predisposition ranges from very primitive behavioural routines, to very complex ones which may be difficult to detect or elucidate. CHARACTERISTICS Values are implicitly related to a degree of behavioural Freedom or Autonomy by organisms which goes beyond a conditioned response; values ''steer'' or ''guide'' the organism, on the basis of internally chosen options. Thus, values imply the (conscious) prioritising of different behavioural ''alternatives'' which are perceived to be possible for the living organism. Conversely, value-conflicts can disorient the behaviour of the organism, throwing it out of balance. Values are at the basis of all moral, political and economic behaviour. Individual values may be contrasted with Social values, but individual values may mean nothing, unless they are socially understood, accepted and acknowledged. The ability to form individual values usually has social presuppositions, and their formation involves a learning process, communication process or socialisation process of some sort. PSYCHOLOGY In Psychology , value theory refers to the study of the way in which human beings develop, assert and believe in certain values, and act or fail to act on them. Attempts are made to explain experimentally why human beings prefer or choose some things over others, how personal behaviour may be guided (or fail to be guided) by certain values and judgements, and how values emerge at different stages of human development (see e.g. the work by Lawrence Kohlberg and Kohlberg's Stages Of Moral Development ). In Psychotherapy and Counselling , eliciting and clarifying the values of the client can play an important role to help the client orient or reorient himself or herself in social life. SOCIOLOGY See Also: Value theory (sociology) In Sociology , value theory is concerned with personal values which are popularly held by a community, and how those values might change under particular conditions. Different groups of people may hold or prioritise different kinds of values influencing social behaviour. Major Western theorists include Max Weber , Karl Marx , Emile Durkheim and Jurgen Habermas , and methods of study range from questionnaire surveys to participant observation. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS In ' concept are conceived as donor-type value. Emergy theorists believe that this conception of value has relevance to all of philosophy, economics, sociology and psychology as well as Environmental Science. REFERENCE
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