Popular science material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences: “The individual value of physical health: interpretations and research findings”

The website of the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine has published a popular science material by Serhii Dembitskyi, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, "The individual value of physical health: interpretations and research findings".

A value object at the level of everyday life is any object, material or imagined, access to which a person feels a need for. It is important to distinguish value objects the need for access to which is changeable or temporary (a conditional value, or an interest) from value objects for which that need is constant (an unconditional, or genuine, value).

At first glance it seems rather odd to assess physical health as an individual value, since its importance in every person's life is obvious. Yet, as it turns out, not many scholarly works in the social sciences are devoted to health precisely as a value object.

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