Value or values may refer to:
Ethics and social
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Value (ethics)
In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of something or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of dif ...
wherein said concept may be construed as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, associating value to them
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Values (Western philosophy) expands the notion of value beyond that of ethics, but limited to Western sources
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Social imaginary
The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the ...
is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular
social group
In the social sciences, a social group can be defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity. Regardless, social groups come in a myriad of sizes and varieties ...
Economics
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Value (economics)
In economics, economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a goods, good or service (economics), service to an Agent (economics), economic agent. It is generally measured through units of currency, and the interpretation is therefore ...
, a measure of the benefit that may be gained from goods or service
** Theory of value (economics), the study of the concept of economic value
** Value (marketing), the difference between a customer's evaluation of benefits and costs
** Value investing, an investment paradigm
* Values (heritage), the measure by which the cultural significance of heritage items is assessed
* Present value
* Present value of benefits
Business
* Business value
* Customer value proposition
* Employee value proposition
* Value (marketing)
* Value proposition
Other uses
* Value, also known as lightness or tone, a representation of variation in the perception of a color or color space's brightness
* Value (computer science), an expression that implies no further mathematical processing; a "normal form"
* Value (mathematics), a property such as number assigned to or calculated for a variable, constant or expression
* Value (semiotics), the significance, purpose and/or meaning of a symbol as determined or affected by other symbols
* Note value, the relative duration of a musical note
* Values (political party), a defunct New Zealand environmentalist political party
See also
* Instrumental and intrinsic value
* Value theory, a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree people value things
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