Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ426189
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Children's Social Reasoning in Context: Reply to Gabennesch.
Helwig, Charles C.; And Others
Child Development, v61 n6 p2068-78 Dec 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, Moral Issues, Moral Values, Realism, Social Behavior, Social Cognition, Value Judgment
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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