Nineteen-Year-Old Kiren Was Raised in a Home Where Christianity Is

question 23

Multiple Choice

Nineteen-year-old Kiren was raised in a home where Christianity is practiced and he attended parochial school through eighth grade. Kiren is a good student and citizen who conforms to the expectations of his church, family, and peers. He does so because he loves his family and church, is loyal to them, and trusts them. Under Kohlberg's schematic analysis, Kiren is most likely at what stage of moral development?

• A) Pre-conventional.
• B) Conventional.
• C) Post-conventional.
• D) Adult.

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Definitions:

Proletariat

Refers to the class of wage-earners, especially industrial workers, who do not own the means of production and whose only means of subsistence is to sell their labor.

Party

A social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment or a political organization competing for power.

Causal Thinking

involves understanding the cause-effect relationship between two events or situations, believing one event is the result of the occurrence of the other event.

Value Rationality

A concept in sociology and economics that refers to behavior motivated by a consistent set of ethical or ideological beliefs, as opposed to actions motivated by ends-means calculations.