analysis and use of carol gilligan
Analysis and use of Carol Gilligan’s In A Different Voice
In Gilligan’s In a Different Voice she explains that in social science the perspectives of men and women differ. She challenges that these “theories formerly considered to be sexually neutral” are human constructs that can be seen in fiction and science cannot be neutral until “we begin to notice how accustomed we have become to seeing life through men’s eyes”. This means that those stereotypes of how men and women look at situations, observations, and perspectives differently are a neutral consensus is a fabrication of our acceptance to the “men’s eye” point of view. Gilligan uses examples of how innocently writers like Strunk and white and Freud in his developmental theory have used bias, exclusionary and negative statements against women as simple facts. Gilligan argues that women’s different path in development should not be considered a failure, but a difference. Other writers like Piaget, Lever and Eriksson all make similar conclusions about human development because culturally and historically “the male model is the better one since it fits the requirements for modern corporate success”. In challenging traditional constructs of moral reasoning, Gilligan faults Kohlberg for his theory on the six stages of moral development because his study is based solely on boys. Gilligan then goes on too conduct experiments that are “contextual and narrative rather than formal and abstract” and finds in the The rights and responsibilities study that “jakes judgment’s reflect the logic of the justice approach” while Amy exhibits “the central tenet of nonviolent conflict resolution, and her belief in the restorative activity of care… Thus in Heinz’s dilemma these two children see two different moral problems – Jake a conflict between life and property that can be resolved by logical deduction, Amy a fracture of human relationship that must be mended with its own thread”
In Gilligan’s In a Different Voice she explains that in social science the perspectives of men and women differ. She challenges that these “theories formerly considered to be sexually neutral” are human constructs that can be seen in fiction and science cannot be neutral until “we begin to notice how accustomed we have become to seeing life through men’s eyes”. This means that those stereotypes of how men and women look at situations, observations, and perspectives differently are a neutral consensus is a fabrication of our acceptance to the “men’s eye” point of view. Gilligan uses examples of how innocently writers like Strunk and white and Freud in his developmental theory have used bias, exclusionary and negative statements against women as simple facts. Gilligan argues that women’s different path in development should not be considered a failure, but a difference. Other writers like Piaget, Lever and Eriksson all make similar conclusions about human development because culturally and historically “the male model is the better one since it fits the requirements for modern corporate success”. In challenging traditional constructs of moral reasoning, Gilligan faults Kohlberg for his theory on the six stages of moral development because his study is based solely on boys. Gilligan then goes on too conduct experiments that are “contextual and narrative rather than formal and abstract” and finds in the The rights and responsibilities study that “jakes judgment’s reflect the logic of the justice approach” while Amy exhibits “the central tenet of nonviolent conflict resolution, and her belief in the restorative activity of care… Thus in Heinz’s dilemma these two children see two different moral problems – Jake a conflict between life and property that can be resolved by logical deduction, Amy a fracture of human relationship that must be mended with its own thread”