In the process of achieving a certain degree of social life; the values serve an important function in terms of determining which attitudes and behaviours are right or wrong, fair or unfair. It is possible to define social values as basic abstract principles or generalized moral beliefs that guide our attitudes and behaviours. Everything in the life of a society is perceived according to values. Values are the principles such as freedom and equality that define the ideal principles of what is desired and right in a society or group. Values might create conflict in the same way that they provide behavioural rules. For example, the debates on abortion are basically the debates on values. D is the correct answer.