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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
value judgment
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A prescription is a value judgment that indicates what should occur and should be done.
▪ But this assumption rests on a contestable value judgment about the proper role of the judiciary in controlling the government.
▪ Site-specific works invariably manifest a value judgment about the larger context of which they are a part.
▪ That is not a value judgment, but a statistical one.
▪ The court must bear contemporary social standards in mind in making what will in some cases necessarily be a value judgment.
▪ To make a value judgment by calling something good or bad is to classify it in terms of its reinforcing effects.
▪ What the legitimate ambit of a certain power actually is will necessarily be a value judgment.
Wiktionary
value judgment

n. (context philosophy English) A judgment of the rightness or wrongness of something, based on a particular set of values or on a particular value system.

WordNet
value judgment

n. an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed [syn: value judgement]

Wikipedia
Value judgment

A value judgment is a judgment of the rightness or wrongness 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, an evaluation undertaken because a decision must be made on short notice.

Usage examples of "value judgment".

He still resented the disparaging glances some serfs cast at him, but reminded himself that a person who made a value judgment of another person solely in consideration of size was in fact advertising his own incompetence to judge.

In the above-mentioned TV program, John Brunner mentioned a scale for assessing the value judgment in fiction, worked out by an American sociologist.

This was not a subjective value judgment, merely an observation that some cultures thrived and expanded while others failed.