ETHICS

Stages of moral development.

Summary

Preconventional- self- concerned with concrete consequences to individuals, focusing on pursuig

concrete interest, while avoiding sanctions.

Stages 1: Punisment-obedient orientation

- Obey or pay

Stage 2: Instrumental-purposive orientation.

- Self-satisfaction

Conventional-group- concerned with fulfilling role expectations, maintaining and supporting the social
order, and identifying persons or groups involved in this order.

Stage 3: Peer and group (Interpersonal concordance orientation)

- Approval- group norms

Stage 4: Social structure orientation

- Law and order

Lawrence Kohlberg- is an American psychologist who grouped together children while they were still
small and did a study on the moral development of these people in a span of about twenty years. He
was interested in the justification or reasoning behind the right behavior of the group and was able to
mark out of six stages of moral development.