Sociology / Unit 4 Soc 0506 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Gilligan's Critique
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The idea
Kohlberg studied only boys; Gilligan argued his scale wrongly scored an ethic of care as less mature than an ethic of justice.
In practice
Reasoning that weighs relationships and care scores lower on his scale than reasoning framed around abstract rules.
Where people slip
The sample-bias critique stands as fact; the equal-maturity claim is Gilligan's and unsettled, and her gender-difference findings themselves failed to replicate.
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