PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Catatonia, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Asian Americans
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Secularization theory holds that religion is on the decline, and that people around the world are discovering new secular and rational ways to make sense of their lives. Each of these three models represents a distinct way of looking at other cultures and each has its respective adherents. Ethnocentrism leads people to assume that their own cultures ways of life is in some ways better or more natural than that of others. He provided a developmental framework for understanding peoples abilities to reason morally. People interpret morality based on a calculation of how much better or worse off they would be for acting in a certain way. The social order of the group is actively maintained, supported, and justified by individuals efforts to live up to the groups standards. Moral reasoning is based on the considerations of abstract ethical principles of what is right and wrong, and moral decisions are reached based on the logical extensions of those principles.