Some Thoughts on Social Values, Labour and Social Literature

Abstract

It can be told that social values those principles or instruments measures of people’s activities and behaviors, to serve for their physical and spiritual needs, principles or instruments that separate them from other beings. The leading feature of social values is being measure (or criteria) of our activities and behaviors. Namely, social values offers dimensions and criteria on understanding of what is right and wrong, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, justice and tyranny. Other features of social values are, to be unique to human beings, to be universal, to be a double pole, integrity and parallel to each other. In addition, to have social values give happiness to us as people; the lack of social values gives unhappiness. The need of social values is on all of our needs. It is important and necessary to focus on if social values built up a system in itself or how to classify the social values. At the end, we can distinguish social values in two types of material values and spiritual values. Labor is also a social value that a mix of both material and spiritual values. On the other hand, literature is included in aesthetic value which is another social value. So, literature has to head towards more social problems and has to shift towards the level of social literature.