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Social Role Valorisation

I’m quite interested in the fact that different people are valued differently in society and that certain properties of individuals influence their value in one direction or another. Here’s the wikipedia entry on Social Role Valorisation, a theory which seeks to explain how valuation occurs and what the effects of being assigned low societal value are on individuals.

posted at 18:04 on Fri, 25 Apr, 2008 | path:
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