Word: gilligan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gilligan's research has focused on challenging traditional studies on the formation of identity and moral judgment. Scholars judging women on the basisof those findings--which tended to use malesubjects only--have wrongly termed women "stunted"in their psychological growth, she wrote...
...Gilligan's results, which sharply contradictthat traditional theory, found that it is unfairto compare men's development to women's becausemen are brought up differently and taught adifferent value system...
...Gilligan's appointment yesterday receivedresounding praise from colleagues...
...Gilligan has "made people re-think ways ofinterpreting women's lives," said Barbara M.Solomon, a retired senior lecturer on history andliterature...
Another Harvard expert on human development,whose conclusions sharply conflict withGilligan's, said yesterday that he welcomes thejunior professor "most warmly." Lawrence Kohlberg,a professor of education and social psychology,said Gilligan "will add a great deal to the HumanDevelopment Department...