Value Judgement
DEFINITION
is a judgment of the Rightness or wrongness Wrongdoing of something or someone, or of the Usefulness of something or someone, based on a comparison or other relativity.
As a generalization, a value judgment can refer to a judgment based upon a particular set of values or on a particular Value System. A related meaning of value judgment is an expedient evaluation based upon limited information at hand, where said evaluation was undertaken because a decision had to be made on short notice.
Quote
A famous quote from mathematician G.H. Hardy indicates how he places the “value-neutral” subject of mathematics into a particular social context: “A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life”.
Example
An item may have value and be value-neutral regardless of social context if its utility or importance is more-or-less self-evident, for example, oxygen supports life in all societies.