In this case, that Western society valued beauty to an unhealthy degree, especially in women.
In each case, the marriage payment evolved to reflect what the society valued most.
What it reveals is that society still values women's bodies more than their self-expression.
And society, in setting its rules, cannot possibly value each person's life at $46 million, without grinding to a halt.
No, but it's a good measure of how society values its resources.
Her own society prized knowledge and valued human achievement beyond all else.
The patriarchal society with a strong warrior tradition values the birth of boys.
If there were two men in him, the artist and the bourgeois merchant, it was clear which one society valued most.
What a society itself values highest as art becomes a true reflection of that society.
Odd how highly this society values a little hole in the grass.