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MORALITY: JUDGMENTS AND ACTION With Elliot Turiel, Ph.D.
2002 (31 min) $250.
ISBN: 1-891340-74-3 View a short clip from this film. Visit our Support Materials section to view or download the Learning Guide and Discussion Topics for this film.
Thoughtful humans have always been deeply concerned with the moral nature of
their actions and recent historical events have further widened the scope of
this interest. It is only within the last hundred years, however, that we
have systematically examined factors involved in moral behavior. This video
reviews some of the basic work of Piaget, Kohlberg
Film content: Definition of morality The views of social scientists who studied morality Freud Skinner Piaget Kohlberg Universality of moral judgments Male vs. Female: Carol Gilligan Domains- Moral, Conventional and Personal Relationship of moral judgments to actions Milgram Obedience Study Turiel study of children assessing moral conflicts Developmental progression of moral reasoning Early empathy Role of parenting Exposure to different points of view in adolescence and young adulthood
Visuals: Newsreel film sequences, including some from 9/11 Cross-cultural film from Africa and India The Kohlberg “Heinz” interview with a female college student Scenes from the original Milgram Obedience Study Interviews with a Pakistani-American female college student Interviews with an Anglo-American male college student Playground interactions at an elementary school Interviews with elementary school children An elementary school group discussion Parents reacting to the unsanctioned behavior of child
Consultant: Elliot Turiel, Ph.D. His current title is Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on human development. His most recent book is The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context and Conflict, c. 2002. Dr. Turiel teaches courses on human development and its relation to education. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale.
Another film with Elliot Turiel, Ph.D. as a consultant: MORALITY: THE PROCESS OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT Related film Part of the CONSTRUCTIVISM SERIES
A Professional Review of this Film: Elliot Turiel’s video on morality is informative, compelling, and engaging. I have used it 4 or 5 times in my courses already, and I plan to use it every semester. The narrative is easy to follow, and brings an important academic area of scholarship to life. The video covers research on children’s and adolescents’ social and moral development. It covers how children acquire morality, and the distinctions that they are able to make early on regarding their knowledge about different types of rules in everyday, familiar settings, such as playgrounds and classrooms. My students read much of the material covered in the film prior to viewing it and they marveled at how comprehensive, and at the same time, compelling it was to listen to the narrative and watch the testimonies from the individuals in the film. In addition, the students found it very helpful to see how the interview methodology is actually carried out. The film shows interviewers asking children, adolescents, and adults to make moral judgments about a range of social issues. These vignettes gave a reality to the methodology that was less obvious to the students when they read the materials. Moreover, the examples from a range of cultures are very timely, and significant in this era of globality, mobility, and multi-culturalism. Rather than just drawing on middle-class U.S. children, the film displays children and families from all over the world. Interviews are conducted with individuals from different parts of the globe, and my students and I greatly appreciated this type of inclusive approach. Surprisingly, it is rare to find academic films with this type of breadth, candor, and scholarship. Morality: Judgments and Action is a must for any course that touches on morality, ethics, social development, and culture. -- Melanie Killen, Ph.D. [ Dr. Killen is Professor of Human Development and Associate Director of the Center for Children, Relationships and Culture, Department of Human Development, at the University of Maryland ]
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and Milgram and investigates current research into the domain theory of Dr.
Turiel and his associates. The domain theory proposes that we have different
standards for making social decisions: moral, conventional and personal.
Factors that lead us to act on our judgments, or not, are critically
examined using issues important to today’s students such as abortion,
academic cheating and risk taking. 
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