hi there this is Professor Taylor and I
thought I'd do a quick overview on the
applied activity two, Kohlberg's theory
interviews. So you're probably familiar
with Kohlberg from psychology 101 and if
you're not Kohlberg's mentioned when it
comes to moral development and he has a theory and
it's called Kohlberg's theory for
schoolchildren; and, it's in your book so
you want to review.  Kohlberg
measured a child's moral development or an
adolescent's  moral development on how they responded to a story he would tell them.
He would tell them the Heinz dilemma
story.  Heinz is a man in Europe and
basically the story's specifically is listed  in your assignment, but
it's basically:  Heinz had a wife
who was very sick and there was a
pharmacist in town that created a
medication that would save Heinz's
wife's life.  However, the pharmacist was
charging thousands of dollars for the
prescription and Heinz couldn't afford
that so he asked the pharmacist if he
could please lower the cost?  The
pharmacist refused and said, "I created
this drug and I should get paid what
it's worth" and Heinz said,  "Well if I
can't have the drug my wife will die" and
the pharmacist was basically "too bad".  So
then Heinz decided to steal the drug to
save his wife's life.  So that's the story
(kind of) it's specifically, you have it
right there in the assignment.
So what Kohlberg wants to know is: what
do you think of that, in order to measure
your moral development.  Then here's these questions
listed -  should Heinz steal the drug
why? why not?   If he does not love his wife
should he still steal the drug? What if
it's a pet, should he still steal the drug?
Then so on and so forth.  
You're going to interview three people
at least two children /two adolescents or
a mixture of that two adolescents and
one child,  two children and one adolescent.
Try to get a mixture of those answers
because I think it will be interesting
for you.  There's different levels of
moral development according to Kohlberg.  
He calls them, and these are in your book,
Preconventional,  Conventional, and 
Postconventional.  Really easy to
remember right?  Conventional and then
there's one before it pre and one after
it post.  Then there's two different
levels to each of those conventional
developments.   So what you're going to do
is you're going to interview these three
people - children/adolescents - and you're
going to ask them these questions after you
tell them the story.  You'll compile
your data and then you will write a
paper,
not so much reflecting your data
specifically; but, kind of digest what you
heard and then go through and write a
two-page paper, double-spaced. If
you're going to do an intro this long,
write a little extra.   So a solid two
pages because they think you'll need it.
You're going to do 12-point font, double
spaced, two pages.  Look for patterns
in the responses that you got. List the
age and gender of each of your respondents.
Using the
children's and adolescent's answers,
classify them into the appropriate
Kohlberg stages.  In the rubric you see
it says mention four terms from the the
text.  That will be really easy because
you'll be talking about, you could talk
about - what
stage there in.  You could talk about why
they're not in that stage and why they're
not in that stage. Why you think they're
in this stage.  That's three already and
then you can also look into Carol
Gilligan's theory.  She was against this
Kohlberg theory.
Initially I think she's changed her mind
on that, but she thought it was very male,
white biased and that girls develop in a
different way.
Instead of what's just (as in justice) girls develop
in relationship.  So their morality
develops in the relationship that they
have with another person.  It's very
interesting. So there's at least four
things you could mention, but you can
pick whatever you'd like.  Please do not
submit Pages or  Google
Docs, no Google Docs.  Submit Word and in a .doc or
PDF.  Because Canvas won't read it (Pages/Google Docs) and if
you're in another class, they won't be
able to see your assignment.  So please
get in the habit of doing a PDF or a doc.
You can get Office for free through my.
CitrusCollege.edu on Citrus's site.
Look at the rubric, see what you want to
cover. Two pages double-spaced, 12-point
font.
Oh okay. So preconventional, conventional,
postconventional.  You can go through
this and be really specific about what
it is or kind of general.  I kind of think
of it generally.  So preconventional
moral development.  This is often seen in
younger children and this is, "if I don't
do it my mom's gonna be mad at me."   "If I
don't do it I'm gonna get yelled at."
It's about obedience and punishment or if
"Well, I'll do it but what will you do
for me?"  (e.g. allowance).   That's kind of the
Preconventional early stage.  Some
people might develop their morality
beyond that and some people might not. 
But
it's typically found in young
children.   Conventional
stage of development, the
second stage is,  I want you to approve of
me. I want to be a good girl and I want
your approval and I want to be nice.  Or,
it's the law -  he shouldn't do it no
matter what.  There's a right and
there's wrong, it's black in its white.
You know some people you know, have a  law and order
orientation.  So that's fine, a lot of
people don't develop past that morality
and that's not bad and wrong if you
don't.  Then the third level of
moral development is called Post
conventional.  Preconventional,  Post.  So
this is the third level.  This is more,
you know, sometimes the laws of man,
we need to go above them,
because there's a higher purpose at work
here.   We're basing our our morality on the universal ethical principle.   Sometimes we have to steal something
because loving someone and saving their
life is for a higher purpose.
Social contract orientation is
another one here, but generally it's
rising above the law
because there's a greater universal law
that we need to follow.  Some people
have their morality at this level and
some people don't.  That is his theory.
Review your book, there's also a
little video here that you can watch
about Kohlberg's theory. Some
people just like it if they can hear me
explain the the assignment so that's
why I do these VERY INFORMAL videos.  Okay, 
thanks!
