Communal Values

(noun)

A communal or cultural value system is held by and applied to a community/ group/society. Some communal value systems are reflected in the form of legal codes or law.

Related Terms

  • Value Consistency
  • Value Contradictions

Examples of Communal Values in the following topics:

  • Value Contradictions

    • Value contradictions can arise between individual and communal value systems.
    • That is, as a member of a society, group, or community, an individual can hold both a personal value system and a communal value system at the same time.
    • In this case, the two value systems (one personal and one communal) are externally consistent provided they bear no contradictions or situational exceptions between them.
    • Value contradictions can also arise within individual or communal value systems.
    • People whose personal values conflict with communal values may try to change communal values through protest.
  • Values as Binders

    • Types of values include ethical/moral value, doctrinal/ideological (religious, political, etc.) values, social values, and aesthetic values.
    • While a personal value system is held by and applied to one individual only, a communal or cultural value system is held by and applied to a community/group/society.
    • Some communal value systems are reflected in the form of legal codes or law.
    • As a member of a society, group, or community, an individual can hold both a personal value system and a communal value system at the same time.
    • In this case, the two value systems (one personal and one communal) are externally consistent provided they bear no contradictions or situational exceptions between them.
  • Value Clusters

    • People from different backgrounds tend to have different sets of values, or value systems.
    • A communal or cultural value system is held by and applied to a community, group, or society.
    • Some communal value systems are reflected in legal codes and laws.
    • In general, the World Values Survey has revealed two major axes along which values cluster: (1) a continuum from traditional to secular values and (2) a continuum from survival to self-expression.
    • Secular values have the opposite preferences to the traditional values.
  • Online Communities

    • The idea of a community is not a new concept.
    • This definition for community no longer applies.
    • There is a set of values to consider when developing an online community.
    • Some of these values include: opportunity, education, culture, democracy, human services, equality within the economy, information, sustainability, and communication.
    • A lurker observes the community and viewing content, but does not add to the community content or discussion.
  • Neighborhood

    • A neighborhood is a geographically localized community within a larger city, town, or suburb.
    • A neighborhood is a geographically localized community within a larger city, town, or suburb.
    • Neighborhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members.
    • On another level, a community is a group of interacting people, living in some proximity.
    • Community usually refers to a social unit—larger than a household—that shares common values and has social cohesion.
  • Rituals

    • A ritual is a set of actions performed mainly for their symbolic value, that may be prescribed by the traditions of a community.
    • A ritual is a set of actions performed mainly for their symbolic value.
    • It may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including by a religious community.
    • Alongside the personal dimensions of worship and reverence, rituals can have social functions that express, fix and reinforce the shared values and beliefs of a society.
  • Gender Differences in Social Interaction

    • Masculine and feminine individuals generally differ in how they communicate with others.
    • Generally speaking, feminine people communicate more and prioritize communication more than masculine people.
    • They avoid communicating personal and emotional concerns.
    • Feminine people tend to value their friends for listening and communicating non-critically, communicating support, communicating feelings of enhanced self-esteem, communicating validation, offering comfort and contributing to personal growth.
    • A communication culture is a group of people with an existing set of norms regarding how they communicate with each other.
  • Community

    • A community is typically a social unit that is larger than a single household, comprised of individuals that share values and thus create an environment of social cohesion.
    • Members of a community have things in common, be it a shared geographic location or a shared interest.
    • In this work, Durkheim establishes two types of social communities that correlate with types of society.
    • People feel connected, as though they are a part of a community, because they are similar.
    • Diagram examples of geimeinschaft, gesellschaft, mechanical solidarity, and organic solidarity within your own community or communities, keeping in mind that these concepts cannot always be neatly separated
  • Documents

    • Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies.
    • Content analysis refers to the study of recorded human communications, such as paintings, written texts, and photos.
    • While sociological research involving documents is one of the less interactive research options available to sociologists, it can reveal a great deal about the norms, values, and beliefs of people belonging to a particular temporal and cultural context.
  • The Symbolic Nature of Culture

    • The symbolic systems that people use to capture and communicate their experiences form the basis of shared cultures.
    • Although language is perhaps the most obvious system of symbols we use to communicate, many things we do carry symbolic meaning.
    • The way you dress could symbolically communicate to others that you care about academics or that you are a fan of your school's football team, or it might communicate that you have adopted an anarchist philosophy or are a fan of punk music.
    • Since these symbolic systems were learned and taught, they began to develop independently of biological evolution (in other words, one human being can learn a belief, value, or way of doing something from another, even if they are not biologically related).
    • According to sociologists, symbols make up one of the five key elements of culture, the others being language, values, beliefs, and norms.
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