Evaluate Kohlberg's Theory

Kohlberg’s theory was triggered by and supports Piaget’s theory of moral development where they agree that moral development changes from stages to stages. Also, he was able to discover the ways people think about certain situations as they mature.
Kohlberg’s stages and levels of moral development has been proven to be universal structures relating to age. Kohlberg’s invariant-sequence hypothesis proved that individuals progress through the moral stages in exactly the order he predicted and never skipped a stage. For example, a test of 3 to 4 intervals shows that participants were either at the same stage of their last interview or have progressed to another stage. This theory has also been confirmed in several other

countries which support Kohlberg's sequential and invariant of moral development.
Kohlberg’s theory is said to focus on certain groups of people and underestimate the moral reasoning of children. Although children and adolescent from different cultures advance orderly through Kohlberg’s first three stages, however, critics find that his highest stages show a “Western ideal of justice” and are biased against people from non-western societies. In addition, critics also find that Kohlberg’s theory was based on all male participants and the result does not necessarily represent female. Another evidence against Kohlberg’s theory is that “it focuses more on moral reasoning while disregarding moral effect and behaviour” indicating that the two are linked.