PSYC 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Social System, Harm Reduction, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Ethnocentrism leads people to assume their own culture is better/more natural that others. Avoiding it is difficult because people are socialized to think in ways consistent with their cultural values and to evaluate practices in terms of how well they fit with a culture"s views on what"s good or bad. Its hard to evaluate cultural practices because cultures wont agree on what each culture values most (choosing the variable that makes most sense to rank a culture for quality of life for example) Lots of cultural variation in what is considered right or wrong/moral or immoral. The most influential model of moral reasoning in psychology kohlberg. Proposed that there was a universal set of moral levels that people advanced through. These were proposed to depend on the individual"s level of cognitive development. In no cultures were most adults at level 1.
