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Kohlberg - Evaluation
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Background
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Kohlberg inspired by Piaget's pioneering effort, expanded on Piagetian notions
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Method
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Sample: 75 American boys age 10-16 years at start and 22-28 at end. Also UK, Canada, Taiwan, Mexico, Turkey
Procedure: Age 10 asked 'Is it better to save the life of one important person or a lot of unimportant people?' Age 13, 26, 20, 24 'Should the doctor 'mercy kill' a fatally ill woman requesting death because of her pain?' Other countries asked 'A man's wife is starving to death but the store owner won't give the man any food unless he can pay, which he can't. Should he break in and steal some food? Why?'
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Types of data
A strength of collecting qualitative data is that it can be analysed. This means the data can be used to ensure that the data supports the researcher's theory. In Kohlberg's study, it was concluded that all people will progress through the 6 stages of moral development in order but not everyone will reach the final stage and, once you reach a stage, you cannot regress back to a previous one
A weakness of collecting qualitative data is that it is difficult to compare. This is because of its non-numerical state. Kohlberg's study collected word answers to questions which can be difficult to compare and draw conclusions from
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