YOUTH GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MORAL REASONING ON GENDER MORALITY IN THE LIGHT OF THEORIES BY KOHLBERG AND GILLIGAN Cover Image

РОДНЕ РАЗЛИKЕ МЛАДИХ У МОРАЛНОМ ЗАKЉУЧИВАЊУ У ПОЛНОМ МОРАЛУ У СВЕТЛУ KОЛБЕРГОВЕ И ГИЛИГАНИНЕ ТЕОРИЈЕ
YOUTH GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MORAL REASONING ON GENDER MORALITY IN THE LIGHT OF THEORIES BY KOHLBERG AND GILLIGAN

Author(s): Saduša Redžić
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Ethics / Practical Philosophy
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: morality; gender; sexual morality; Kohlberg, Gilligan

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a comparative analysis of data obtained by in-depth interviews in the sociological study of gender morality, through the prism of theories on the relationship between morality and gender. The reference framework of the paper consists of theories on gender socialization and the learning of gender roles, as well as the theories of the learning of morals. A revision of theories that deal with the relationship of gender and morality, by Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan, is followed by an overview of several reference research results in Serbia and abroad. The following section contains an analysis that includes only selected positions from a broader qualitative research conducted with the students from the University of Niš, in order to compare their moral reasoning on certain aspects of gender morality in respondents of both sexes. Since Kohlberg’s and Gilligan’s theories serve as a narrow theoretical framework, I use them in the analysis to interpret the data obtained by an autonomous research on youth gender morals. At the same time, I attempt to verify the two theories, looking for arguments to support one or the other.

  • Issue Year: XXXIX/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 1083-1103
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English