Gender and diversity culture in moral reasoning

Abstract

The article focuses on the subject’s representation of the moral when there is a personal compromise to help a friend who has broken a social law. The article is an abstract of a wider analysis of the representations made by a group of people of both sexes about how to solve a moral dilemma. The authors develop a theory of organisational models, from both a genetical-constructivist view and the theory of mental models. Thus, they can explain how the personal performance at a certain moment is partly determined by the problem’s specificity and partly by the degree of structural development achieved through the exercise of the own cognitive faculties in different kind of contents. Within this theoretical frame, the authors have studied the differences of reasoning according to the age
and sex of the sample.