Cultural relativism is the position that there is no universal standard to measure cultures by, and that all cultural values and beliefs must be understood...
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or a culture (cultural relativism). Some forms of relativism also bear a resemblance to philosophical skepticism. Descriptive relativism seeks to describe...
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terms. Such ethnographers and their students promoted the idea of "cultural relativism", the view that one can only understand another person's beliefs...
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geographical location, state, race or culture they belong to. Proponents of cultural relativism suggest that human rights are not all universal, and indeed conflict...
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Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions...
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Ethnocentrism (redirect from Cultural chauvinism)
indicate a negative connotation. The opposite of ethnocentrism is cultural relativism, a guiding philosophy stating that the best way to understand a different...
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Anthropology (section Cultural relativism)
varieties of cultural relativism in anthropology, see Spiro, Melford E. (1987) "Some Reflections on Cultural Determinism and Relativism with Special Reference...
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Factual relativism (also called epistemic relativism, epistemological relativism, alethic relativism, and cognitive relativism) argues that truth is relative...
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Cultural Bolshevism (German: Kulturbolschewismus), sometimes referred to specifically as art Bolshevism, music Bolshevism or sexual Bolshevism, was a term...
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A cultural icon is a person or an artifact that is identified by members of a culture as representative of that culture. The process of identification...
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In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische...
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ecology) who were critical of the cultural relativism of the Boas-Sapir school which has dominated much of western cultural anthropology for the last century...
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durability of contracts are cultural relativism and moral relativism. Grace and Cohen (2005, 200) describe cultural relativism as the extent to which different...
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Jewish culture (redirect from Cultural Judaism)
Jews with host populations, and others still from the inner social and cultural dynamics of the community. Before the 18th century, religion dominated...
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(1999). "Defining the intolerable: Child work, global standards and cultural relativism". Childhood. 6 (1): 133–144. doi:10.1177/0907568299006001010. S2CID 27668970...
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Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations...
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Cultural Christians are those who received Christian values or appreciate Christian culture. They may be non-practicing Christians, non-theists, apatheists...
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Cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity in a manner perceived...
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Cultural assimilation Cultural behavior Cultural diversity Cultural identity Cultural intelligence Cultural pluralism Cultural relativism Intercultural learning...
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Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts...
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Cultural nationalism is a term used by scholars of nationalism to describe efforts among intellectuals to promote the formation of national communities...
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Cultural tourism is a type of tourism in which the visitor's essential motivation is to learn, discover, experience and consume the cultural attractions...
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multiculturalism, political correctness, cultural relativism, and non-Western cultural values. He argued that cultural relativism would lead to acceptance of outdated...
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In anthropology and geography, a cultural area, cultural region, cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous...
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between material culture and non-material culture is known as cultural lag. The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up...
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In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, social capital...
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Franz Boas (section Cultural anthropology)
associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism. Studying in Germany, Boas was awarded a doctorate in 1881 in physics...
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Cultural identity is a part of a person's identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social...
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A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole. Cultural criticism has significant overlap with social and cultural theory. While...
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