SOCIAL AND
COMMUNAL VALUES
NACUA, JOAIRA MAE M.
NOB,
NOVO, BRYLLE
Individual Core Values
▪ Core values are personal ethics or ideals that guide you when making
decisions, building relationships and solving problems. Identifying the values
that are meaningful to you can help you develop and achieve personal and
professional goals.
▪ Your guide what life's most important decisions, including everything from the
career path you choose to go down, to how you spend your free time.
– INTEGRITY. Know and do what is right. Learn more.
– RESPECT. Treating others the way you want to be treated. Learn more.
– RESPONSIBILITY. Embrace opportunities to contribute. Learn more.
– SPORTSMANSHIP. Bring your best to all competition. Learn more.
– SERVANT LEADERSHIP. Serve the common good. Learn more.
SOCIAL
Communal
Social values
▪ Social value is the quantification of the relative importance that
people place on the changes they experience in their lives. Some,
but not all of this value is captured in market prices. It is
important to consider and measure this social value from the
perspective of those affected by an organisation's work.
▪ Social values are the unwritten laws by which a culture live.
▪ Social value is about understanding the relative importance of changes that
people experience and using the insights we gain from this understanding to
make better decisions. By taking this relative importance into account we
can ensure that the decisions we make focus on what is valuable to people,
and through this we can start to increase the positive and reduce the
negatives effects and ultimately increase the overall value of our work.
Types of Social values
▪ We can have dominant or traditional social
values. We can also have Emerging,
Alternative, and Oppositional social values.
▪ Agreeing with values and acting on them may
not always be the same. Social values are
based on the combination of belief,
behaviour, and aspiration.
▪ DOMINANT: Dominant social values are those that majority of
people in a society support at a particular time .
▪ TRADITIONAL: Traditional social values are those majority of
people have believed over a long period of time. They may be
dominant values or they may declined in importance over time.
▪ EMERGING: Emerging social are those that develop as a result
of the failure or inadequacy of traditional or dominant social
values of the emergence of new ideas. They may, in time,
replace the earlier values or may add a degree of sophistication
or complexity to our understanding of them.
▪ ALTERNATIVE: Alternative social values are those which are held
in contrast to dominant or traditional values. Alternative social
values may develop greater support and emerge as new
dominant values or they may remain as an alternative, held by a
smaller more insignificant sector of society. Traditional values
may, over time, diminish in support sufficiently to be considered
alternative.
▪ OPPOSITIONAL: Oppositional values are those values held by a
small group in society which are in opposition to those held by
the majority of society.
COMMUNAL VALUES
▪ A communal or cultural values system is held by and applied to a
community/ group/ society
▪ A community shared value is a value that is appreciated at an
individual level and shared by every member of the community.
▪ Community values are the non-negotiable core principles or
standards that the community’s resident wish to maintain.
▪ Some communal values system are reflected in the form of legal
codes or law
The importance of the place, site or asset to people’s collective identify.
This value relates to our emotional attachment to place and how we
relate to it. It can be found in many forms, including:
▪ Symbolic or commemorative – a tangible depiction of collective
celebration or grief, or as a representation of local identity and
history, such as war memorials, statues, historic
representations of town emblems.
▪ Social – links to the traditions or social practices of a
community or place, such as a church, pub or institutional
building
▪ Spiritual – the spirit of place, which can be religious but can be
anywhere that embodies the beliefs of the individual or
community.
What are the communal qualities?
▪ Communal characteristic, which are ascribe
more strongly to female, describe a concern
with the welfare of other people. In social
roles, females are valued for being
affectionate, helpful, kind, sympathetic,
interpersonally sensitive, nurturing and
gentle.
REFLECTIONS
▪ Social values form an important part of the culture of the society.
Values account for the stability of social order. They provide the
general guidelines for social conduct. Values such as
fundamental rights, patriotism, respect for human dignity,
rationality, sacrifice, individuality, equality, democracy
▪ A community's shared values shape local policies, interactions
among members, and individuals' actions. Importantly, those
shared values can change based on the collective choices of
their members. In other words, it is individuals working together
in communities that create a community's shared values.
