Harmony versus Justice: Value Conflict in Valuation

It is suggested that these professions, which originate from Europe-American’s individual oriented culture may acculturate these workers with core values such as “justice” or “independence”. These core values may be in conflict with values such as “harmony” and ”interdependence”, which are core values of Chinese collective oriented culture.

The study will be conducted by interview, focus group, survey and experiments. The relationship between traditional value identification, value judgment and relationship type between those involved in social conflicts will be examined via survey data. The researcher conducted a series of deep interview and one focus group with social workers, lawyer and family court judge.