1 / 6

Human Development

Explore the levels and stages of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, including preconventional, conventional, and postconventional reasoning. Discover how moral decisions evolve through six stages emphasizing maturity in reasoning, and delve into gender perspectives on moral reasoning by Carol Gilligan.

spurgeon
Download Presentation

Human Development

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Human Development Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

  2. Kohlberg’s Levels and Stages • Three levels: • Preconventional, Conventional and Postconventional • Six stages: • Each level has 2 stages that underscore a level of “maturity” in reasoning

  3. Preconventional Moral Reasoning • Stage 1: Avoid punishment • Ex. Keith won’t take the cookie because he does not want to have time out • Stage 2:Satisfying one’s need • Ex. Jake will take the cookie, knowing he risks punishment, because he wants it so much

  4. Conventional Moral Reasoning • Stage 3: Seeks to win approval of others • Ex. In order to be seen as “cool”, Janice steals the mascara from Longs Drugs at the urging of her friends • Stage 4: moral decisions based on maintaining law and order • Ex. During the protests, Austin, refuses to join in the looting because he knows it is against the law

  5. Postconventional Moral Reasoning • Stage 5: obedience to law based on personal values • Pre cannabis legalization, some parents broke the law to provide the drug for their sick children • Stage 6: moral decisions are based on individual conscience alone • Ex. Seeking universal justice and human rights for all (MLK, Ghandi, Malala Yousazfai)

  6. Moral Reasoning from a gender perspective • Carol Gilligan: • The way boys and girls are socialized determine their moral reasoning • Girls are taught to empathize; boys a taught to think logically. Boys my seem to reason in the case of Heinz at a higher level than girls simply because of socialization.

More Related