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Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory
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Harvard Center for Moral Education
20 years of using interviews to investigate the nature of moral thought, by classifying interview responses to a story. The interviewee answers a series of questions about the moral dilemma
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Kohlberg used this moral dilemma to question various interviewees to determine their moral thought pattern.
From these answers Kohlberg hypothesizes three level of moral development
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What he was looking for Kohlberg did not care about the yes or no
answer about stealing the drug, but rather the explanation behind the answer
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Kohlberg then broke down the answers and developed the three stages of moral development:– Preconvention – Conventional – Post conventional
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Preconventional Stage Level 1.Obedience and punishment
orientation– Children obey because adults tell them
to obey. People base their moral decision on fear of punishment
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Preconventional Stage Level 2. Self–interest orientation
– Individuals pursue their own interests and expect others to do the same –what is right involves equal exchange
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Conventional Stage Level 3. Mutual interpersonal
expectations and conformity– Individuals value trust, caring, and
loyalty to others as a basis for moral judgments-
– Want to live up to expectations
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Conventional Stage Level 4 Social system morality
– Moral judgments based on social law – The importance of doing one’s duty – Maintaining the fabric of society
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Postconventional Stage Level 5.Social contract and Individual
rights– Individuals reason that values, rights and
principles may transcend the law – difference between moral and legal right
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Postconventional Stage Level 6.Universal ethical principles
– Individual principles of conscience and justice