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Jensen, Lene Arnett – Human Development, 1997
Argues that moral reasoning is premised upon more comprehensive worldviews. Suggests that moral behaviors in part serve to maintain these worldviews. Uses interviews with adults whose moral evaluations and reasoning place them on opposite sides of the current American culture war to illustrate the argument that they differ in their moralities…
Descriptors: Adults, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Culture