My concern is that Halloween provides a microcosmic peek at a society where women are primarily valued by how physically or sexually attractive they are, above their intellect or their achievements or their personalities.
This indicates that in our economy, women are primarily valued as malleable marketing tools that can be manipulated indefinitely to generate revenue.
Degrees from universities are primarily valued not on their outputs (how much students actually learn) but on their inputs (SAT scores, acceptance rates).
For example, the calendula, grown today almost entirely for its bright orange flowers, was primarily valued for eating, for adding color to butter and cheese, for adding smoothness to soups and stews, and for all kinds of healing salves and preparations.
But for three generations now, we have shifted the prime value of education from character development to academic achievement, and as Lincoln predicted, achievement, not character is now primarily valued in our government, institutions and culture.
14 The choice of perspective is primarily the value judgment of the health technology assessment agency or government in a given jurisdiction, so the objective of this paper is to explore the second methodologic issue.
So "Fishermen," which runs through July 20, is primarily a curiosity-value piece, showing some work by two well-regarded (and eventually blacklisted) screenwriters that didn't quite measure up.
(26) Although factors in the decision to install an AD are primarily economic, valuing environmental benefits that are currently outside of the traditional market system may increase the financial viability of projects and accelerate their deployment.
Finally, the schema further divides each value according to its directionality; that is, whether the value is primarily introverted, functioning inwardly on the individual subject, or is extroverted, functioning externally in a social context.
An "attitude" is a latent concept that is primarily demonstrated in how people value an attitude object with some degree of favor or disfavor (Ajzen, 1991).
