Values as defining elements of culture

The article considers values as one of the defining elements of culture. It is noted that culture in the value aspect is a kind of social mechanism that allows a person to navigate in the surrounding space. Value ensures the integration of society, helps a person make the right (socially approved) decision. In the course of the historical development of a society, several parallel processes take place in its culture: development, modernization and preservation, stability, and continuity. On the one hand, culture absorbs or creates new values, and on the other hand, it preserves its identity. The integrity of culture is guaranteed by social selection. Any culture retains at its core only what corresponds to its logic.