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The purpose of the present study is to find out the effects of sub-social characteristics, mother’s education level, the number of siblings and gender on 7-8 and 9 year-olds’ (N=257) perception of understanding social and moral rules. The population forming the study is the students attending elementary schools of Directorate of National Education in the province of Konya during the academic year 2004-2005. Of these 257 students as the study sample, 89 students represented the city culture, 78 of them represented the town culture, and 90 of them represented the village culture. In order to determine children’s perception of understanding moral and social rules, ‘Perception of Understanding Moral and Social Rules Scale’ (P.U.M.S.R.S), adapted from Smetana (1981) and developed by Nobes and Pawson (2003), is applied. According to the findings regarding children’s Perception of Understanding Moral Rules, the mother’s educational background is effective on children’s Perception of Understanding Moral Rules (U.M.R) in terms of seriousness and alterability of rules sub-dimensions. Besides, socio-cultural level of students found to be effective only in sub-dimension of authority contingency. Moreover, influences of gender is found effective only in lack of rules sub-dimension considering the total score average. Considering the findings regarding children’s Perception of Understanding Social Rules, the mother’s educational background was significant in terms of the average score of those who were educated and illiterate regarding the alterability of rules sub-dimension. There were no significant differences in any of the sub-dimensions considering the number of siblings. All differences in the present study are discussed as significant at the p< 0.05 level or greater.
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