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Moral codes that characterize human societies; cultural elements that bring together a group of individuals and render humans as the only species to be separated qualitatively from animals on the basis of social order and community.
Introduction
Societies seek to establish congruence between social values associated with their activities and the norms of acceptable behavior in a larger social system. Values foster harmony within a human society and function as the foundation of organizational legitimacy. Absence or violation of cultural, common values leads to disparity that can threaten congruence and undermine unity within a society. As communication is a vital component in the realm of enculturation, language appeared to develop in parallel with human cultural values. Human species evolved over generations, and communication became more complex....
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Karaiskaki, A., Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, X. (2018). Social Values. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1077-1
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