Psychology · Developmental Psychology
A topic within Developmental Psychology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
2 works
Lawrence Kohlberg & Richard H. Hersh
Summarises the theory that moral reasoning develops through an invariant sequence of six stages, from obedience to a self-chosen ethical principle, driven by cognitive development rather than direct instruction in rules.
Carol Gilligan
Argues Kohlberg's stage sequence was built and validated on male samples and mistakes a care-based moral orientation more common among the women she studied for moral immaturity, rather than a different but equally developed ethic.