Social Development: Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

• Preconventional

  • Punishment and obedience
  • Naïve instrumental hedonism

• Conventional

  • Maintaining good relations
  • Maintaining social order (law and order)

• Postconventional

  • Social contracts
  • Universal ethical principles
  • Cosmic orientation

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