Sterponi2004

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Sterponi2004
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sterponi2004
Author(s) Laura Sterponi
Title Construction of rules, accountability and moral identity by high-functioning children with autism
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Tag(s) EMCA, accountability, autism, moral positioning, practices of morality, sequential understanding
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Year 2004
Language English
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 6
Number 2
Pages 207–228
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DOI 10.1177/1461445604041768
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Abstract

This article explores how high-functioning children with autism navigate in the social world, specifically how they orient in the realm of norms and standards. In particular, this investigation focuses on rule violations episodes and sheds light on how these children account for their (mis)conduct and position themselves in the moral framework. This analysis shows that high-functioning children with autism can actively engage in discourse about norms and transgressions in an initiatory capacity, thereby displaying a mastery of social rules as a guide for appropriate conduct and interpretation of others’ behavior. Furthermore, this article argues that these social skills are linked with the ability to operate with sequentially based understandings: Prior courses of action constitute for the autistic children the fundamental source for reaching an understanding of the normative mechanics of everyday life, and subsequently for constructing their own lines of conduct and themselves as moral agents.

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