... levels of moral rationality but rejects commitment to a universal sequence of developmental stages. The result is a developmental moral epistemology that accommodates moral pluralism to a greater degree than does standard cognitive developmental theory without lapsing into the moral relativism of social...

... interpretations of cross-cultural data, tensions embedded in anthropological theories of cultural relativism, and attempts to move from empirical findings to statements of value. In addition, attention is paid to how the four foundational issues can and often should be brought together in moral theory...

... Narrative structure Relativism Human Development 1989;32:300-315 © 1989 S. Kargcr AG, Basel 00 !8 -7 16X/89/0325-0300S2.75/0 Stories Lived and Stories Told: The Narrative Structure of Late Adolescent Moral Development Mark B. Tappan Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA Key Words. Hermeneutics...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Adult development Cognitive development Cognitive processes Interpersonal relations Memory Relativism Hum. Dev. 28: 146-168 (1985) © 1985 S. Karger AG, Basel 00 i8-7...

...B. Leadbeater Researchers in cognitive development have suggested that adult thinking becomes more functional, contextual, or relativistic; however, considerable diversity pervades conceptualizations of this relativism. This diversity, in fact, reflects differences in the theorists’ beliefs about...

...), dilemma (2), and thought level (4) with repeated measures on the last two factors were conducted on the relativism and dialecticism measures. In general, older adults showed significantly less rejection and more acceptance of relativistic and dialectical assumptions than young and middle-aged adults (p...

...Michael J. Chandler A commentary on the sense of isolation and estrangement which commonly accompanies the relativism ushered in by the emergence of formal operational thought, and a detailing of several regressive strategies frequently employed by adolescents in their efforts to accommodate...