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Data from Haan, Smith, and Blocks (1968) study of the relation of moral reasoning to sitting]in during the Free Speech Movement protest at the University of California in 1964 was reanalyzed using the current moral judgment scoring system. ... In their study, more than half of the subjects who reasoned at both the lowest and highest levels of moral development sat]in compared with 11% of the subjects reasoning at the middle level. ... At each higher stage of moral reasoning represented in the sample, a greater proportion of subjects sat]in (i. ... Although moral stage was the most theoretically important correlate of sitting]in, it was not the largest. Political identification, deontic choice, and moral type were even more strongly related to sitting]in than was moral stage. An effect of sex on moral stage was found but there was no sex effect on sitting]in or on the Stage ~ Sitting]In interaction. The data are discussed in terms of a more general model of moral reasoning and moral action.
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The most often cited empirical relation between stages of moral reasoning and the performance of moral action is data from Haan, Smith, and Blocks study of the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM). ...
Despite the importance of Haan, Smith, and Blocks original report, their work suffered from certain limitations primarily because of the primitive state of the Moral Judgment Scoring System available at that time. First, to ensure a clear test of the moral development hypothesis, data were reported for only the 57% of the sample whose moral reasoning was at a single, pure stage. ... Third, questions concerning the reliability and validity of the Moral Judgment Scoring System available to Haan et al. ... studied the socialization, personality, and broad social]political activism correlates of moral reasoning. Our goal will not be to reanalyze their entire study but rather to concentrate only on the relation of moral reasoning to a single event, the sit]in at Sproul Hall. This will allow us to test several hypotheses concerning the theoretical relation of moral stage to moral action not specifically examined earlier. ... This includes the Moral Judgment Interview and a supplementary story concerning the sit]in itself.
Approximate Word count = 1818
Approximate Pages = 7.3
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