Moral & Character Development
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Critiquing Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development, feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan argued that Kohlberg's moral stages were primarily derived from male samples, thereby neglecting women's perspective of moral development. According to Gilligan, women's moral reasoning is based on which specific value or orientation?
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Carol Gilligan criticized Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development by stating that his model places excessive emphasis on justice, whereas women's moral development is primarily based on the 'ethics of care', human relationships, empathy, and responsibility.
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