Empirical developmental research by Turiel distinguishes moral domains from social conventions, showing children respond differentially to authority-based correction in ways that presuppose instructed norm hierarchies.
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Instructed norm hierarchies(as the underlying structure that children's responses assume exists)
A ranking system of rules that people learn from others, where some rules are understood as more important or fundamental than others.
Moral domains(as one category of rules children distinguish)
Rules about right and wrong that are based on fairness, harm, and justice—like not hurting people—which most people believe are universally important regardless of culture.
Presuppose(what both foundationalisms supposedly do)
To assume or take for granted something as true in order to make an argument work, without proving it first.
social conventions(Turiel 1983: 109–111)
Norms that further the coordination of social interactions within social systems, judged wrong only because of contingent convention or because they violate the dictates of a relevant authority