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Helwig, Charles C.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Moral judgments are an important aspect of social reasoning, not arbitrary products of social formations. Maintains that Gabennesch relegates moral concepts to reification, failing to account for the distinctions between conventionality and moral concepts. (BC)
Descriptors: Children, Ethics, Ethnocentrism, Moral Development
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Nucci, Larry; Turiel, Elliot – Child Development, 1993
Two studies examined Amish-Mennonite, Dutch Reform Calvinist, and Conservative and Orthodox Jewish children's concepts of moral and nonmoral religious rules. It was found that the subjects differentiated between moral and nonmoral religious rules: judgments regarding moral issues were justified in terms of justice and human welfare considerations,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Amish, Children, Cross Cultural Studies