Cultural Values

Groups, societies, or cultures have values that are largely shared by its members. Members share a culture even if each member's personal values do not entirely agree with some normative values sanctioned in the culture.  This reflects an individual's ability to synthesize and extract aspects valuable to them from the multiple subcultures they belong to.

    If an individual expresses a value that is in serious conflict with their group's norms, the group's authority may carry out various way of stigmatizing or conforming the individual.  For example, imprisonment can result from conflict with social norms that have been established as law or rules and regulation of a country.