Kohlberg: The Child as Moral Philosopher
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- Created on: 01-04-19 20:40
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- Kohlberg
- Methodology
- Interviews
- Qualitative data
- Cross-cultural comparisons
- Longitudinal
- Participants
- 75 American Boys
- GB, Canada, Taiwan, Mexico and Turkey
- All boys, androcentric
- 10-16 and 22-28
- Procedure
- Nine hypothetical moral dilemmas
- Each presented a conflict between two moral issues
- Participants asked to discuss three of these
- Promted with 10 or more open ended questions
- Stage theory constructed
- Interview every three years
- Nine hypothetical moral dilemmas
- Findings
- Younger children thought at a preconventional level e.g accepting authority
- Developed into conventional level as children grew older
- Development slower in Mexico and Taiwan
- Conclusions
- Stages are invariant and universal
- "Each new stage represents a more equillibriated form of moral understanding, resulting in a more logically consistent and morally mature form of understanding
- Evaluation
- Sample
- All boys
- Gilligan: female morality based more on care rather than justice(in males)
- Jorgensen: Gilligan is more of an expansion that a critisism
- All boys
- External Validity
- Gilligan: Not based on real life
- SDB
- Self report
- May portray themselves are morally higher
- Post conventional level: 15% likely to cheat, 70 for pre
- Self report
- Based on how individuals think, ideal moral thinking
- Burton: Only likely to follow through on some behaviours like, cheating and sharing toys
- Sample
- Methodology
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