Cultural realtivism tell you about the culture ppt

Cultural relativism

1. CULTURAL RELATIVISM

2. What is Cultural Relativism? Cultural relativism is the idea that a person’s beliefs, values and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another.

3. Cultural Relativism vs Cultural Perspective Cultural relativism is the idea that cultures should be evaluated based on their own standards and values. Cultural perspective is the idea that cultures can be analyzed and understood based on our own cultural values and norms.

4. Cultural Relativism vis-a-vis Ethnocentrism Cultural relativism debunks the concept of ethnocentrism- an idea that has long haunted men, in their attempt to answer which among cultural behavior should be the standard, if there is any. It is in exact opposition to cultural relativism. Ethnocentrism is the practice of taking one’s own people, society and culture to be vantage point from which all else is viewed and judge(Bruce & Yearley , 2006). Xenocentrism is the belief that one’s own cultural features are a downgrade in comparison to those of other cultures. Xenoxentric individuals value commodities, style culture or even ideas from another country or culture other than their own(Bell, 2017).

5. Moral Relativism In effect, cultural relativism results to, if not implies moral relativism which maintains that different societies (and ages) hold distinct systems of morality and that there are no objective, and transcultural criteria for judging between these systems (Herder as cited in Sikka, 2011.)

6. 1. What is considered morally right and wrong should be judge based on cultural contexts. 1. Cultural relativism might fall prey into the idea that universal standards do not exist. 2. Cultural relativism is an answer to cultural annihilation. 2. If universal standards do not exist, so thus morality. 3. Cultural relativism promotes multiculturalism. 3. Cultural relativism gives birth to ethical relativism, which veers away from the idea that there are objective moral standards. Cultural Relativism: Its Strength and Weaknesses Strength Weaknesses

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