The Axiological Approach to the Problems of "Self" and "Role"

This paper is an introductory study for the behavioristic approach to value. I think, as the fundamental method of such an approach, it must be possible to understand the theory of value as follows ; (a) the theory of the preferential system of action. (b) the theory of the social system of action. The former (a) characterizes as the "selectiv-rejective behavior" the human behavior, and examines the value approach connected with the function of purpose and cognition in the human behavior from the standpoint of psycho-biological analysis of the value phenomenon. The latter (b) characterizes as the "role-taking behavior" the human behavior, and examines the value approach connected with the function of socialization in the human behavior from the standpoint of psycho-sociological analysis of the value phenomenon. In this paper, I treated as the subject of this paper a case of the latter (b). And, I verified, in this examination, the reason which is understood as the value is the social, the functional, and the normative from the following problems ; (1) the problem of selfhood and role-taking behavior (2) the problem of value-situation and process of "socialization" in the human behavior And, in the last of this paper, I found the following conclusion from this verification. Value theory is the theory of scientific inquiry of the "attitude".