ABSTRACT
The ability of enough individuals in the system to represent symbolically in their minds the conflicting and cooperating elements of essentially the whole interdependent social-interaction system and its relation to its environment may be necessary in some cases. Value content analysis assumes that an actual value "system" in the group observed is a part of the real system of social interaction, which itself is made up of many kinds of behavior in relation to each other and to the values. The individual person may or may not be aware of all of these systemic variables as they appear in the large scale of organization, and the social psychologist in many cases may also still be unprepared to take much complication into account. Involvement in these larger-scale systems is essentially always powerfully at work in human social and interpersonal relations, influencing the conception of the self, one's values, and the motivational orientation of all of the individuals involved.
