ABSTRACT
Over the years the methodology of stage assessment has been revised in important ways in order to account for certain anomalies that appeared to violate the strict reading of Piagetian stage criteria. Kohlberg's intermediate endorsement of domain-specific global stages is not without its complications. Over the years the methodology of stage assessment has been revised in important ways in order to account for certain anomalies that appeared to violate the strict reading of Piagetian stage criteria. Justice is seen as an instrumental exchange of favors, goods, or sanctions. Prescriptive role-taking is used as a deliberate procedural justice check on the validity of decision-making. Kohlberg was devoted to the task of delineating hard stages of justice reasoning. Hence, in empirically validating the stage theory, he sought evidence of structural development characterized by invariant sequence, hierarchical integration, and structured wholeness.
