As selena and her friends are walking home after school they approach a corner store and see bags of candy and snacks on open shelves outside the front door. a young clerk is also outside waiting for customers. as they get closer, they see the clerk go inside the store. selena's friends encourage her to take a bag of candy, but she refuses. according to gilligan's theory, how would selena, if she were an adult, most likely explain why she chose not to steal?

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Donovan Orozco

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10 January, 13:19

As selena and her friends are walking home after school they approach a corner store and see bags of candy and snacks on open shelves outside the front door. a young clerk is also outside waiting for customers. as they get closer, they see the clerk go inside the store. selena's friends encourage her to take a bag of candy, but she refuses. according to gilligan's theory, how would selena, if she were an adult, most likely explain why she chose not to steal?

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Macie Stephenson · Answer 1

Based on the preconventional stage of Kolhlberg in moral reasoning, the behavior that Selena is showing explains that she didn’t take the candy even if the clerk went inside the store because Selena has the thought of getting caught by the clerk once she took the candy.