Development of common sense representations of justice: challenging the teleological model

BARREIRO, ALICIA VIVIANA

Estambul

Congreso; European Congress of Psychology,; 2011

European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations

Developmental psychology –particularly genetic psychology- has researched children's moral development establishing an isomorphism with operative thinking (Kohlberg, 1981; Damon, 1990). However, hasn´t take account common sense representations (Moscovici, 2001; Jovchelovitch, 2007) that persons construct in their everyday interactions. The aim of this study is describe the development of common sense representations of justice. The sample was incidental, stratified, composed of children and adolescents (n= 216) from Buenos Aires. The instrument utilized was the piagetian clinically informed research interview (Piaget, 1984; Delval, 2001). Results indicate a differentiation/integration dialectic process in the development of utilitarian, retributive and distributive representations of justice, which challenges the teleological developmental model traditionally used by genetic psychology