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Jezik: Engleski
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Moral Judgement from Childhood to Adolescence
Norman J. Bull

Publisher: Beverly Hills : Sage Publications
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Published in 1969 this book analyzes the development of moral judgement in children and adolescents. Interviews were held with 360 children aged 7 to 17, with equal numbers of either sex. Original visual devices were planned to elicit judgements in moral areas known to be of universal significance, such as the value of life, cheating, stealing and lying.

ccompanying Dr. Bull`s main concern to trace the growth of moral judgement, is a statistical analysis to seek evidence of correlation with four key variables sex, intelligence, socioeconomic background and religious influence. In addition, analyses of concepts of reciprocity, of the development of conscience and of specificity in moral judgement were derived from the tests. The book inlcudes a critical survey of previous work in this field and places the research in its wider philosophical, psychological and sociological context.

Contents
Preface ix

1. The study of moral judgement 1
The contemporary scene
A changing society
The impact of new knowledge
Religion and morality
Assessing moral development
The origin of conscience
The relevance of psychology
Early studies
The work of Piaget
The morality constraint
The morality of co-operation
Critique of Piaget
Stages of development
The Character Education Enquiry
University of Chicago Studies of Values
The psychoanalytic approach
Moral values
Moral education

2. The pattern of development 26
Stage and development
Levels of judgement
Anomy: pre-morality
Heteronomy: external morality
Socionomy: external-internal morality
Autonomy: internal morality
Sequential stage development
Variable factors
Socio-economic background
The home
Religious influence
Sex differences
Intelligence
The place of variables

3. The research project 46
Purpose
Methodology Projection tests
S-Coring
Verbalism
Constructing visual tests
Selection of moral situations
Depicting the five moral themes
The individual interview
Pre-testing
Pilot testing
The final sample
Age
Intelligence (I.Q.)
Socio economic class
Religious class
Church attendance
Religious attitudes
The research project

4. The value of life 67
The test
Is saving life instinctive?
Sympathy and the maternal instinct
Responses
Conclusions
1. Levels of judgement
2. Developmental changes
3. Sex differences
4. Stability in judgement
5. The sacredness of life

5. Reciprocity and conscience 90
The nature of reciprocity
The range of reciprocity
Reciprocity and conscience
The nature of conscience
The genesis of conscience
The super-ego
The ego-ideal
Types of conscience
Conscience in action
Definitions of conscience
The development of conscience
Factors affecting conscience


6. Cheating 116
Test Situation
Responses
The pattern of development
Comparison with Piaget’s results: classroom
Comparison with Piaget’s results: games

7. Stealing 145
The test situation
Responses
The pattern of development
Stealing by finding and keeping
The pattern of development

8. Lying 175
The lying situation
Telling the truth
Definition of a lie
Why is lying wrong?
Responses
The pattern of development
Lying to children and adults
Lying to parents

9. Specificity and generality in lying 208
Piaget and telling tales
Specificity
Consistency
Lying for a friend
Reciprocity in lying for a friend
While Lies
The conditional legitimacy of lying

10. Written tests 229
The purpose of written tests
(A) The ideal person test
(B) Virtues and vices
(C) Choosing reasons test
(D) Right or wrong stones
(E) Concepts of justice
(F) Sentence-completion

11. Statistical analysis 276
Methodology
General discussion
1. The broad pattern
2. Conscience development
3. Intelligence
4. Socio-economic class
5. Religious class
6. Sex differences
7. The tests
8. Conclusion

Bibliography 289
Index 301