TY - JOUR
AU - Smolicz, Jerzy
AB - Jerzy Smolicz University of Adelaide Core values can be regarded as forming one of the most fundamental compo- nents of a group's culture. They generally represent the heartland of the ideological system and act as identifying values which are symbolic of the group and its membership. Rejection of core values carries with it the threat of exclusion from the group. Indeed, the deviant individual may himself feel unable to continue as a member. Core values are singled out for special attention because they provide the indispensable link between the group's cultural and social systems; in their absence both systems would suffer eventual disintegration. Indeed, it is through core values that social groups can be identified as distinctive ethnic, religious, scientific or other cultural communities. Diverse examples of core values may be cited, and in this paper I shall refer to a number of such values in national or ethnic groups. Later in the discussion the focus will be on ethnically plural societies and the supra- ethnic values that are necessary for their stability and development. Australia, with its mainly European-derived groups, is taken as a model of such a plural society, although the argument presented here is not limited 
TI - Core values and cultural identity
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
DO - 10.1080/01419870.1981.9993325
DA - 1981-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/core-values-and-cultural-identity-7xTsehDEhn
SP - 75
EP - 90
VL - 4
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -