VALUE JUDGMENT Definition & Meaning

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value judgment

noun

an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.

value judgment

noun

a subjective assessment based on one's own code of values or that of one's class

value judgment

An assessment of a person, situation, or event. The term is often restricted to assessments that reveal the values of the person making the assessment rather than the objective realities of what is being assessed.

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We often make value judgments without realizing that we are doing so. For example, a teacher who describes a student as “the best I've ever taught — very polite and obedient” is making a value judgment about the qualities (politeness and obedience) that make a student good.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of value judgment¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

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The spirit of the Ojai festival need not be conveyed by a laundry list of composers and works or by value judgments.

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What political scientists describe as affective/negative polarization describes how political disagreements are increasingly existential value judgments where “the other side” is not just wrong but evil.

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The team found that CAs make value judgments about certain identities -- such as gay and Muslim -- and can be encouraging of identities related to harmful ideologies, including Nazism.

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The very act of assigning a story is a value judgment.

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And in the early 20th century, we had the “eugenics boom” within the biomedical sciences, which placed value judgments on certain traits that were supposedly rooted in “scientific evidence.”

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