The Study of Human Values - Hardcover

Kilby, Richard W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819189448 ISBN 13: 9780819189448

Publisher: University Press Of America, 1992

Synopsis

This book grows out of a long-felt need for a readable source that explores all aspects of people's values. Good information on the study of human values exists scattered about in various sources, spanning disciplines and decades, but it is not easily located nor readily assimilated and organized in mind. Richard W. Kilby attempts to remedy that situation. This book is a general comprehensive work on human values and is composed of chapters on types of values, their nature, their role in lives, their origins, and methods of their study or assessment. It was written on the assumption that most of its readers would know little of the subject, rather than be specialists, but Kilby's main consideration was to include everything that was pertinent and to do full justice to each topic. One portion or another of The Study of Human Values should be useful to someone, be it student, instructor, researcher, or general reader.

About this title

About the Author

Richard W. Kilby is Professor of Psychology Emeritus, San Jose State University in California.

Review

The author selects a study that he considers pertinent, and provides extensive quotes and...material for a good understanding of the technique and the results.>>>> (M. Brewster Smith Contemporary Psychology)

A scholarly, thoughtful summary and commentary on research on human values. An excellent avenue of access to its subject matter.>>>> (M. Brewster Smith)

A scholarly, thoughtful summary and commentary on research on human values. An excellent avenue of access to its subject matter. (M. Brewster Smith)

The author selects a study that he considers pertinent, and provides extensive quotes and...material for a good understanding of the technique and the results. (M. Brewster Smith Contemporary Psychology)

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0819189448
• ISBN 13: 9780819189448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272