Moral Heritage Based On Intergenerational Continuity And Change

The morality in this paper means the individual cognitive structure, neither the traditional sense of moral principle concept, nor the legal system complement. The level of morality has positive effect to individual decision-making, the level of cooperation and the market mechanism and legitimacy of the government. It's useful for us to understand individual behavior (including inconsistency) in economic and social interaction, so as the human behavior on the evolution of a system.From the angle of characteristics, morality should belong to the extended order of impersonal transaction category. Hayek believed that, the modern society is a universal intercourse giant market society. Market order as modern product of the extended order's long evolution, its formation is based on some gradually evolved human behavior rule. These rules are not by instinct, but through the traditional education and imitation, be handed down from age to age, and gradually from the small tribe extended to wider society. Research on the extension of the order, is contribute to reveal the complex evolution of moral. So, How morality heritage in the long history, and what conditions induce moralitis'change? Under the outside pressure, can morality continue? This article attempts to explain moral continuity and change from the intergenerational transmission and environmental impact. First, in the Avner Greif and Steven Tadelis model, we excavate realistic features, and describe and assume individual moral characters; based on these, establish the dynamic cross-age model, to explain moral formation from social interaction; subsequently, from the inclined socialization, show influence of reward, punishment and school education on the morality. This paper designed the questionnaire and investigates the value of area, verify the theoretical model from the perspective of evidence. Finally, the paper comes to the conclusion:under inclined and vertical socialization, without external interference, morality can go down in accordance with the initial form; punishment and reward will directly affect action, but without impact on the morality; in contrast, the school education is able to access the moral formation process, fundamentally affect moral structure, but slow, inclined socialization's strengthen will lead to vertical socialization's resistance, so as to ensure the continuation of morality.