Morality in Everyday Life
Developmental Perspectives

This collection highlights research on morality in human development.

Melanie Killen (Edited by), Daniel Hart (Edited by)

9780521454780, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 September 1995

448 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.75 kg

"The editors of this volume deserve praise for bringing together, in a single volume, many different strands of moral issues and perspectives. Killen and Hart have put together an important collection of papers that will prove to be an invaluable resource to anyone interested in understanding the topics, theories, research issues and debates that inform contemporary moral psychology." Culture and Psychology

This collection brings together research on morality in human development. Morality in its various forms is a dominant influence on the conduct and evaluation of day-to-day life. The pervasiveness of the moral domain can be detected in every aspect of social life; moral commitments shape the goals and aspirations of individuals and moral judgments are apparent in discourse about most forms of human interaction. Two broad themes integrate this book: social context relationships and development. Contexts include interpersonal as well as societal communities and cultures. This volume will appeal to scholars from many disciplines including: psychology, anthropology, education, sociology, law, linguistics, and ethics.

Introduction Daniel Hart and Melanie Killen
Part I. The Acquisition of Morality: 1. The social construction of character in toddlerhood Dale Hay, Jennifer Castle, Carol A. Stimson, and Lisa Davies
2. Morality, autonomy, and social conflict Melanie Killen and Larry P. Nucci
3. Children's conceptions of sociomoral affect: happy victimizers, mixed emotions, and other expectancies William Arsenio and Anthony Lover
Part II. Social Judgment in Different Contexts: 4. Obedience to authority in children and adults Marta Laupa, Elliot Turiel, and Philip Cowan
5. Social contexts in social cognition: psychological harm and civil liberties Charles C. Helwig
6. Psychological and philosophical considerations of prudence and morality Marvin Berkowitz, Jeffrey P. Kahn, Gregg Mulry, and Jeanne Piette
7. Context, conflict, and constraint in adolescent-parent authority relationships Judith G. Smetana
Part III. Social Judgment in Different Cultures: 8. Development in the context of everyday family relationships: culture, interpersonal morality and adaptation Joan G. Miller and David Bersoff
9. Diversity in social development: between or within cultures Cecilia Wainryb and Elliot Turiel
Part IV. Moral Integration and Character: 10. Moral commitment in inner-city adolescents Daniel Hart, Miranda Yates, Suzanne Fegley, and Gerry Wilson
11. The development of extraordinary moral commitment Anne Colby and William Damon
12. Reasoning about morality and real-life moral problems Lawrence J. Walker, Russell C. Pitts, Karl H. Hennig and M. Kyle Matsuba.

Subject Areas: Child & developmental psychology [JMC]