ABSTRACT
The role of values in the regulation of individual and collective social action is a classic theme, addressed by numerous theories and studies in the social sciences’ many disciplines. The conception have dubbed system-centered sees the social system as an entity with a logic of its own, which, regardless of how it arises, comes before the actors and determines their behavior. The actor-centered conception places the emphasis on the fact that any concrete social system is always a social construction by the actors. The process-centered conception takes its name from a basic difference that sets it apart from the other two approaches: the social system is no longer seen as an entity, whether pre-ordered as in the system-centered conception, or recognizable only a posteriori as in the actor-centered conception, but as a process in continuous change. The subject’s personal experience can be of moral dilemmas and contradictions arising because of belonging to different social milieu with different habitus.
