Values come from the Latin word "valere" meaning to measure worth. They are expressions of ultimate goals and purposes that a society considers desirable and important. Values influence behavior and serve as standards for judging what is good or desirable. A value is something that is perceived as good and desired according to commonly shared meanings within a society.

1. Comes from Latin
word “VALERE”
meaning to measure
the worth of
something

4. “Values are the expressions of the
ultimate ends, goals, or purposes
of social action. They are society’s
moral imperatives that deal with
what ought to be, and are
therefore considered desirable
and important by the members of
society”

5. “Values influence a person’s
behavior towards a large
class of objects or persons
although they are not
related to any specific
object, person or group.”

6. “They are the standards for
determining whether
something is good and
desirable or not and serves as
the criteria by which norms
themselves are judged.”

7. “a thing has value when
it is perceived as good
and desirable”

8. “standards and principles
for judging what is correct
or incorrect behavior, what
is worth attaining, what is
desirable or undesirable”

9. It
is something
desired of what is
good.

10. Standards which enable us to
organize our ideas and
interpret our experiences
within the context of commonly
shared meaning of things,
events, or actions

11. Because of
worth, importance, evaluatio
n

12. For encompassing
what is pursued. What
is beautiful is pursued.

13. when the value is
recognized by a
representative number of
people within the society

14. when the value has
been shared and
practiced in common
for some time

15. when the value
involves the emotions
and is taken seriously
and sought after by
many

16. when the value provides
ready-made means for
judging the social worth of
persons or groups who
share or practice it