Children's Social and Moral Reasoning About Exclusion
- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Vol. 16 (1) , 32-36
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00470.x
Abstract
Developmental research on social and moral reasoning about exclusion has utilized a social-domain theory, in contrast to a global stage theory, to investigate children's evaluations of gender- and race-based peer exclusion. The social-domain model postulates that moral, social-conventional, and personal reasoning coexist in children's evaluations of inclusion and exclusion, and that the priority given to these forms of judgments varies by the age of the child, the context, and the target of exclusion. Findings from developmental intergroup research studies disconfirm a general-stage-model approach to morality in the child, and provide empirical data on the developmental origins and emergence of intergroup attitudes regarding prejudice, bias, and exclusion.Keywords
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