Abstract

RIQUE, Júlio; CAMINO, Cleonice Pereira dos Santos; MOREIRA, Pollyana de Lucena  and  ABREU, Eloá Losano de. Moral judgment of young people in different political contexts. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.65, n.2, pp. 243-257. ISSN 1809-5267.

This study compared the moral thinking of young Brazilians in the 1970 and 1980, with 97 young of the year 2011 with an average age of 19years. They answered the Moral Judgment Interview-MJI. The youth interviewed in 2011also responded to a question about what is justice. The results indicated that youth in the 1970s and 1980s had a conventional moral thinking guided by social expectations and maintaining the values of the peer group. Currently, young people have moral thinking based on respect of the laws and the maintenance of the social order. A content analysis of the question of what justice is revealed advanced and primitive conceptions. We discuss the differences in moral thought and conceptions of justice based on the interpretation of that moral thinking toward respect for law, order and authority, overlaps the respect for basic civil rights and duties.

Keywords : Moral development; Moral stages; Kohlberg.

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