Japanese Adolescent Boys' Senses of Empathy (Omoiyari) and Carol Gilligan's Perspectives on the Morality of Care

A Phenomenological Approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2389655
AutoresHidetada Shimizu (0000-0003-2470-0776, Northern Illinois University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen7
Número4
Páginas453-475
Fecha de publicación2001-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354067x0174003
OpenAlexW2085572739
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas17

This study replicated the interview method of Carol Gilligan and her colleagues to examine the nature of the care perspective in Japanese adolescents' real-life experiences of moral conflicts and decision making. Four emergent themes that contradicted Gilligan's theoretical perspectives were identified: (1) both Japanese male and female adolescents showed what Gilligan would call a 'female' (i.e. 'care-oriented') concern; (2) the care orientation was expressed as a normative voice of a larger (Japanese) society, whereas Gilligan saw it as a subordinate (to justice) voice of male-oriented Western society; (3) caring and justice were linked in the thought and actions of Japanese adolescents, whereas Gilligan saw them as polar opposites; (4) Japanese adolescents saw caring as a communal responsibility, whereas Gilligan saw it as individual feelings. Implications for the applicability of Gilligan's concept of the morality of care in crosscultural research are discussed

Developmental psychology · Economic Justice · Empathy · Epistemology · Feeling · Morality · Normative · Psychoanalysis · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Early Childhood Education and Development · Psychology · Social Psychology