Moral Judgments of Modern Children and Teenagers in Russia

The article presents a study of moral judgments shared by children and teenagers.Its results form a foundation for further enquiry into sources and conditionsdeveloping young people’s normative control system, the flexibility of this system,and the “limits” of its development defined by a particular culture. It goes on topose questions on research methodology at the levels of either hypothetical explanatorymodels or the means of diagnostics. J. Piaget's investigation of children'smoral judgments was prototypical for this research. The technical equipment renderedpossible a more subtle analysis of the children's judgments, which, in itsturn, enabled us not only to define the general tendency of development, but alsoto determine a number of factors of how the normative regulation of children ofdifferent ages is functioning.