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As the individual develops, they move to the sociocentric level "becoming more oriented to the social group (family, peer group, tribe, subculture, professional group, city, nation, co-religionists, etc.) as the reference point..." (Kerrigan, 2004) and the self is viewed as part of the social group. At this point of development the individuals "worldview and moral span expand and fundamentally relate to the value, goals, and norms of the group." (Kerrigan, 2004)
Further development moves the individual into the worldcentric level in which the individual gain orientation into the community of the world as the individual's main point of reference "with the self and all social groups being seen as a part of a vast web of being." (Kerrigan, 2004) at this stage of development the worldview and moral span experience a further expanding and "fundamentally relate to the needs and aspirations of humanity (or the living world) as a whole." (Kerrigan, 2004)
SUMMARY and CONCLUSION
The research in this work has demonstrated that there are three primary stages of human development beginning with the egocentric stage of development in which the individual is focused upon 'self' in terms of wants and needs with others only linked to 'self'. However, at the second stage of development the individual moves...
Finally, the third stage of individual development is the worldcentric stage in which the individual views of morality are based upon the entire living world. This work concludes that the human being is not naturally sociocentric but as the individual develops they move from an egocentric view to a sociocentric view due to learning and conditioning of the group to which they belong.
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Are Human Beings Naturally Sociocentric Animals?
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