Pre and Elementary-School Children's Conceptions of Moral and Conventional Rules
Keywords:
Socio-moral development, Moral judgement, Moral domain, Socio-convcntional domainAbstract
The present study examined the responses to moral and social-conventional events given by pre and
elementary-school children. Four stories - two moral and two social-conventional - were presented to 72 children, 24 of a
preschool and 48 of the first and third grades of an elementary school, both public. Justification responses were assessed, as
well as criteria for judging rule seriousness, punishment for the transgressor, rule contingency and relativity. Results indicated
the complexity of the children's social moral judgement. A clear distinction between responses to moral and social conventional
events was not found. The results were analyzed in the light of Piagel's moral development theory (1977), Turicl's social
knowledge development theory (1983), and Shweder, Mahapatra, and Miller's social communication theory (1987).
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social reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology,
/,49-65.
Geiger, K.M. &Turicl, E. (1983). Disruptive school behavior and
concepts of social convention in early adolescence. Journal of
Educational Psychology, 75, 677-685.
Hertzog, С & Rovine, M. (1985), Repeated-measures analysis of
variance in developmental research: Selected issues. Child
Development, 56, 787-709.
Hollos, M, Leis, P.E. & TurieI, E. (1986). Social reasoning in Ijo
children and adolescents in Nigerian communities. Journal of
Cross-Cultural Psychology, 17, 352-374.
Nisan, M. (1987). Moral norms and social conventions: A crosscultural
comparison. Developmental Psychology, 23, 719-725.
Nucci, L.A. (1981). Conceptions of personal issues: A domain
distinct from moral or societal concepts. Child Development,
52, 113-121.
Nucci, L.A. & Nucci, M.S. (1982). Children's social interactions in
lhe context of moral and conventional transgressions. Child
Development, 53,403-412.
Nucci, L.A. & Turiel. E. (1978). Social interactions and the development
of social concepts in preschool children. Child Development,
49, 400-407.
Nucci, L.A., TuricI, E. & Gawrich, G.E. (1983). Children's social
interactions and convention in the Virgin Islands. Journal of
Cross-Cultural Psychology, 14, 469-487.
Piaget, J. (1967). Eludes sociologiques. Geneve: Droz.
Piaget, J. (1977). O julgamento moral na criança. São Paulo:
Mestre Jou.
Shwedcr, R., Mahapatra, M. & Miller, J.G. (1987). Culture and
moral development. Em J. Kagan & S. Lamb (Orgs.), The
emergence of morality in young children (pp. 1-90). Chicago:
Chicago University Press.
Siegal, M. & Storey, R.M. (1985). Day care and children's conceptions
of moral and social rules. Child Development, 56, 1001-
1108.
Smetana, J.G. (1981). Preschool children's conceptions of moral
and social rules. Child Development, 52, 1333-1136.
Smetana, J.G. (1984). Toddler's social interaction regarding moral
and conventional transgressions. Child Development, 55,1767-
1776.
Smetana, J.G. (1985). Preschool children's conceptions of transgression:
Effect of varying moral and conventional domainsrelated
attributes. Development Psychology, 21, 18-29.
Smetana, J.G. (1986). Preschool children's conceptions of sex-role
transgressions. Child Development, 57,862-871.
Smetana, J.G., Kelly, M. & Twentyman, C.T. (1984). Abused,
neglected, and nonmaltreated children's conception of moral
and socio-conventional transgressions. Child Development, 55,
277-287.
Song, M., Smetana, J.G. & Kim, S.Y. (1987). Korean children's
conceptions of moral and conventional transgressions. Child
Development, 23, 577-582.
Stein, N.L. & Glenn, C.G. (1979). An analysis of story comprehension
in elementary-school children. Em R.O. Freedle (Org),
New directions in discourse processing (pp. 53-120). Norwood:
Ablex.
Turiel, E. (1983). The development of social knowledge. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Turiel, E. (1989). Domain-specific social judgments and domains
ambiguities. Merril-Palmer Quarterly, 35, 89-114.
Turiel, E. & Davidson, P. (1986). Heterogeneity, inconsistency, and
asynchrony in the development of cognitive structure. Em I.
Levin (Org.). Stage and structure: Reopening the debate (pp.
106-143). Norwood: Ablex.
Turiel, E., Nucci L.A. & Smetana, J.G. (1988). Cross-cultural
comparison about what? A critique of Nissan's (1987) study of
morality and convention. Developmental Psychology, 24, 140-
143.
von Bcrtalanffy, L. (1977). Teoria geral dos sistemas. Petrópolis:
Vozes.
Weston, D. & Turiel, E. (1980). Act-rule relations: Children's
concepts of social rules. Developmental Psychology, 16, 417-
424.
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2013-04-25
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Aragão Martins, R. (2013). Pre and Elementary-School Children’s Conceptions of Moral and Conventional Rules. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 11(3), 203–211. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17252
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