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Carol Gilligan has criticized Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development because:

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Answer: a) His sample was biased as it focused only on white males. b) He focuses too much on moral thinking and not on moral behavior.

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There are several reasons why Carol Gilligan has criticized Kohlberg's theory, the main one is that the sample for his study consisted only of white boys. Therefore, he didn't consider neither gender nor cultural differences in the development of moral reasoning, which have a great impact on both moral behavior and thinking. Gilligan also argued that Kohlberg was focused on establishing abstract categories for moral development and didn't seek to understand moral behavior.

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