Four hundred fifty-four preadolescents from seventh and eighth grades in three subcultures-city, kibbutz, and Israeli Arabs-were compared on the realistic-relativistic dimension of moral judgment. City children were more relativistic in their judgment than both kibbutz children and Israeli Arabs, who were similar in their scores. The results were explained in light of Wright's theory of moral behavior and attributed to the differences in the socialization pattern in the three subcultures.
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