dc.description.abstract | This research aims to describe the various social values reflected in the short story collection Musim di Rambut Ibu by Mashdar Zainal through a literary sociology approach. The main focus of this research is to reveal how social values that are closely related to the reality of people's lives are represented in these literary works. The social values explained refer to a theory that divides social values into three main categories: first, affection (love), which includes the values of devotion, help, kinship, loyalty, and care; second, responsibility, which consists of a sense of ownership, discipline and empathy; and third, harmony of life, which includes the values of justice, tolerance, cooperation and democracy. This research uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods, where the data collected is in the form of words, phrases and paragraphs that reflect the social values in the short stories. The main data source comes from the short story collection Musim di Rambut Ibu published by Kompas in 2024 with a total of 164 pages. The data collection technique was carried out through the observation and attention method to capture an in-depth representation of social values. After all the data has been collected, the analysis process is carried out through three main stages: data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of this research show that there are three groups of social values that stand out in the work, namely the values of love, responsibility and harmony of life, each of which is explained in the value elements mentioned previously. | en_US |