Showing papers by "Anselm L. Strauss published in 1954"

The development of conceptions of rules in children.

Abstract: It is well known that children's initial conceptions of moral rules are rather specific and linked with action and that eventually these become more general, abstract, and extensive. Most investigations of moral development confine themselves to describing the age-by-age progression, but there is some question as to how to account for the general growth trend. There is, for instance, Piaget's (I2) explanation in terms of a shift from coercive to cooperative social relationships; and there are explanations stemming from learning theory (6) stating, for instance, that notions deriving from direct experiences in specific learning situations later are generalized to other situations. In addition, literature bearing on conceptual development (i, 17), on levels of thought (14, 16, 19), on saltatory development versus gradual development (2o), and on role playing (5) is quite relevant to the general question of how awareness of rules develops. This paper will report a study of the dawning of awareness of some rules governing transactions having to do with purchasing and will discuss the bearing that this material has both upon the development of moral rules in general and upon the theories currently accounting for this development.