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Turiel, Elliot; Banas, K. Amy – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The research presented in this essay is grounded in Social Domain Theory. Research provides substantial evidence that children's social development is characterized by the formation of distinctly different systems of thought, including those in the moral, social-conventional, and personal domains. A main focus here is on morality, defined as…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Social Values, Moral Development, Child Development
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Perkins, Serena A.; Turiel, Elliot – Child Development, 2007
This research examined adolescents' judgments about lying to circumvent directives from parents or friends in the moral, personal, and prudential domains. One hundred and twenty-eight adolescents (12.1-17.3 years) were presented with situations in which an adolescent avoids a directive through deception. The majority of adolescents judged some…
Descriptors: Deception, Adolescents, Moral Values, Social Values
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Turiel, Elliot – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Cultures include a combination of shared and contested understandings. Although individuals may identify with their culture, they are also critical of practices judged unfair. Cultural practices that privilege one group and restrict the practices of another are sources of conflict and change. (Author)
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Culture Conflict, Moral Development, Moral Values
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Turiel, Elliot; Wainryb, Cecilia – Child Development, 2000
Presents a developmentally grounded perspective on study of social life in cultures that examines sources of coexistence of sociability and opposition, harmony and conflict, acceptance and critique. Proposes that coexistence of these elements is systematically connected both to development of distinct domains of thought and to the dynamics of…
Descriptors: Conflict, Cultural Context, Culture, Individualism
Kahn, Peter H., Jr.; Turiel, Elliot – 1986
Aware that children conceive of different types of trust, a study examined 60 children's conception of trust. The subjects comprised three age groups: 6-7 years old, 8-9 years old, and 10-11 years old. Each subject was interviewed on the basis of three stories. The stories depicted a hypothesized violation of trust in a moral context (lying),…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Concept Formation, Credibility