Cultural relativism

varied answers could be right for different people? Specifically, is morality relative or objective? Cultural relativism and objective moral theory are two opposing arguments that deliver explanations as to what describes a conduct as right or wrong. Accordingly, this essay will examine the differences between both theories to decide which of these two positions is better and why. Cultural relativism is the stance that moral proposals do not reflect objective and/or universal truths but instead…

something that happens frequently in today’s world. Glensler, points out significant problems for cultural relativism. The first one is that cultural relativism ignores that one person can belongs to many different groups, which can differ on moral views. If the moral views differ, what would be the right thing to do? Cultural relativist fail to offer a consistent answer. Secondly, cultural relativism forces us to conformity. Since just majority groups are right, minority groups are wrong. Where…

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism is a prevalent theory that is used to explain the variety of differences within cultures and their morals. In this paper I will address the claims of James Rachels and Ruth Benedict, and their opposing views on cultural relativism. The authors have their own theories, against and for cultural relativism. Benedict illustrates that diversity is apparent even on the topics of morality where we would expect to agree. I believe Ruth Benedict’s claims of…

Rachels “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” Different cultures have different conceptions of right and wrong. The Eskimos, for instance, commit infanticide often, leaving their babies to die in the snow. Although we uphold the same value of caring for our offspring, an Eskimo family may be unable to care for their child and select death as their final option. In our culture this is viewed as horrific, but to the Eskimos, it is a part of life (Rachels 35). Cultural relativism says that to…

concept of ethnocentrism interfere with cultural pluralism? How do these concepts help or hinder the issues globally. Ethnocentrism is one of the main causes of division in race, creed and religion. These are learned behaviors because when we are children we may notice differences in color, race or language, but we are not born bias either way. Stereotyping, categorizing, generalizations and accusations affect us worldwide even within our own races. Cultural pluralism occurs when smaller…

“Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism” “Niwas Katel” “03/02/2015” “Introduction to Sociology” “Professor Bob Young” Ethnocentrism stands in contrast to Cultural Relativism in a manner that in ethnocentrism, an individual finds his ethnicity at the center of comparison and views the world from the angle of his own culture and ethnicity. In Ethnocentrism, a person believes that his ethnic group, race or culture are the most important one and most or at least some of the aspects of his…

western culture of America to the Inuit culture of Siberia. Cultural Relativism argues that every culture, no matter how different, is entitled to their own beliefs and other cultures do not have the right to take offense to another culture’s beliefs. This means that morals that may seem correct in one culture may be considered morally wrong by another culture. An argument against cultural relativism would be that if Cultural Relativism were considered to be fact societies could not criticize…

heavily questions the concept of cultural relativism and uses a more hands-on approach. Cultural relativism is tolerating any and all differences and it is incompatible with making any moral judgments about these differences. In a uniformed culturally relativist world, one would not have any objection to female genital mutilation if those who practiced it found it an integral part of their culture. Failing to grasp the true nature of culture, cultural relativism makes the assumption that culture…

Cultural relativism may be defined as a theory that advocates the idea of subjective morality. To extrapolate, this theory entails that “different cultures have differing moral codes” and these variances are merely arbitrary. Although this is a seemingly sufficient theory, there are key issues with this school of thought. James Rachels suggests several issues with accepting cultural relativism. He criticizes cultural relativism by stating that the theory is absurd as it entails severe…

that morality is accepted based on what society this is right or wrong. She is auguring for the latter. 2) according to Pojaman the different between culture relativism and ethical relativism is that in culture relativism it a belief that the fact of morality rule is different society to society and the ethical relativism is that people in different group should have different opinion about following on if something is what is right or wrong.…