Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Sommers stands by the Atlantic article, an excerpt from her upcoming book, The War Against Boys, and claims Gilligan is a "clever illusionist" who has not produced the studies that actually prove her controversial assertions about sex differences in moral reasoning...
Many psychologists have long considered Gilligan's In a Different Voice, which purported to uncover differences in moral judgment between men and women, to be extremely well-written--but scientifically unfounded...
...There are now dozens of studies regarding this claim, and I think it's fair to say that the vast majority do not find that these moral orientations are gender-related," says Lawrence J. Walker, a University of British Columbia professor of psychology who wrote a definitive study in 1984 casting significant doubt on Gilligan's theories...
Bertsch says she thought Liebert was writing a term paper and wished to examine Gilligan's confidential transcripts, which include 144 interviews with children, students and adults regarding moral decisions...
When her work was attacked in 1987, Gilligan said that even if scientists have challenged the book, its findings made sense to many readers. Many agreed that men and women might use two different styles of moral reasoning--"justice" and "care"--roughly divided along gender lines...