Week 3 Kohlberg & Gilligan Flashcards
Kohlberg’s Levels of Moral Development
Preconventional, Conventional, & Postconventional
Kohlberg’s Preconventional Stages (Level 1)
Decisions made based on how they affect us personally
Stage 1 - Punishment & Obedience Orientation
Stage 2 - Individualism & Exchange
Kohlberg’s Conventional Stages (Level 2)
Strive to meet the expectations of peers, family, and society
Stage 3 - Good Interpersonal Relationships
Stage 4 - Maintaining the Social Order
Kohlberg’s Postconventional Stages (Level 3)
Striving to live up to the “higher” laws of morality
Stage 5 - Social Contract & Individual Rights
Stage 6 - Universal Principles
Kohlberg believed that ____ tended to remain at the ____ level of moral development because they place a stronger emphasis on things such as ____ & ____
women
third
social relationships
welfare of others
Kohlberg’s research subjects were 72 ____ from ____ to ____ years of age
males
10 to 16
Kohlberg believed that people can only pass through the levels in the order specified and cannot regress (T/F)
true
Kohlberg believed that everyone eventually reaches the highest level of moral development (T/F)
false
Gilligan believed that men developed a more ____-based morality while women developed a more ____-based morality
justice
care
Gilligan believed that the difference between male and female moral development was heavily influenced by ____
their relationship to their mother
Gilligan’s Stage 1
Preconventional Morality
Survival, egocentric
Gilligan’s Stage 2
Conventional Morality
Responsibility, selflessness
Gilligan’s Stage 3
Postconventional Morality
Balance, internal moral principles
Gilligan believed women’s morality is influenced by their ____
relationships
In Gilligan’s justice-based morality, acting justly means avoiding ____
inequality
