CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL AND MORAL RULES

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Maria da Graça B.B.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17133
• topic: Regras convencionais; Regras morais; Transgressões; Raciocínio lógico; Conventional rules; Moral rules; Transgressions; Logical reasoning

Turiel (1983) argues that moral and social rules aredistinct domains with different courses of development and universallystable at a very early age. However, this distinction was not found in Diasand Harris (1990) among children from different SES families. Five-year-oldchildren from Orphanages accepted moral and conventional violations as empirically true. Thus, with the aim to evaluate the existence of anevolution of the rules, we presented 7-year-olds from Orphanages with thesame syllogistic problems that convene either moral or conventional rulesand the same probe questions used in the previous study, and wecompared their results with those found in the present study.Seven-year-olds also did not distinguish between moral and conventionalrules. However, they considered both forms of violations as very seriousand they only accepted them in an imaginary world. It seems there aremore atenuations to these violations among younger children fromOrphanages, and these atenuations decrease when children start formalschooling.