ABSTRACT
Introduction It has long been said that man is a social animal; that humans exist in a social world with its complex maze of actors and interaction situations. Generally, however, we do not think of the social world of an individual as changing in stages which are sequential, ordered, and universal, such as those proposed by Inhelder and Piaget (1958) for cognitive development, Kohlberg (1968) for moral development, or Selman and Byrne (1974) for social perspective taking. The individual’s social world has always been seen as too complex to be easily categorized and too much in flux to be easily ordered into stages.
