摘要 : Social Role Valorization is interpreted as a high-order empirical social science theory that informspeople about the relation between the social roles that people hold and what happens to them as aresult, and how to valorize (impr... 展开 Social Role Valorization is interpreted as a high-order empirical social science theory that informspeople about the relation between the social roles that people hold and what happens to them as aresult, and how to valorize (improve or defend) the social roles of people at risk of socialdevaluation. Because Social Role Valorization is not a ‘‘religion,’’ people must go to higher beliefsystems to determine whether and why other humans should be valued or devalued, whether thesocial valuation of others should be promoted, and which presumably effective means to this end aremorally defensible or even imperative. Whether a pursuit of social valuation in certain cases hasunacceptable implications can be in the domain of either ‘‘religion’’ or practical trade-offs. 收起