• Study Resource
  • Explore Categories
    • Arts & Humanities
    • Business
    • Engineering & Technology
    • Foreign Language
    • History
    • Math
    • Science
    • Social Science

    Top subcategories

    • Advanced Math
    • Algebra
    • Basic Math
    • Calculus
    • Geometry
    • Linear Algebra
    • Pre-Algebra
    • Pre-Calculus
    • Statistics And Probability
    • Trigonometry
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Astronomy
    • Astrophysics
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Earth Science
    • Environmental Science
    • Health Science
    • Physics
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Anthropology
    • Law
    • Political Science
    • Psychology
    • Sociology
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Accounting
    • Economics
    • Finance
    • Management
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Aerospace Engineering
    • Bioengineering
    • Chemical Engineering
    • Civil Engineering
    • Computer Science
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Industrial Engineering
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Web Design
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Architecture
    • Communications
    • English
    • Gender Studies
    • Music
    • Performing Arts
    • Philosophy
    • Religious Studies
    • Writing
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Ancient History
    • European History
    • US History
    • World History
    • other →

    Top subcategories

    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Finnish
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Persian
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • other →
 
Profile Documents Logout
Upload
A History of Anthropology
A History of Anthropology

... superorganic, an integrated system that was more than biological, yet seem to have its own innate dynamics, almost to live its own life. Kroeber is often considered an extreme methodological collectivist. He was criticised by colleagues. They say that culture is not an object independent of human be ...
TO - csusm
TO - csusm

... 1. Know what the human universals are: we/they dichotomy; sex; gender; world view concepts of self and other, relationship, classification, causation, space and time; subsistence (economic production and environmental interaction); political organization; social organization; kinship; religion. 2. B ...
Wooddell Information and Truth
Wooddell Information and Truth

... community groups should take particular stances on politics and economics). Rather, it attempts to address the more foundational question of how, in our basic information sharing, we can have meaningful or fruitful discussion of social or economic questions at all if we endorse relativism. It argues ...
1 - Michigan State University
1 - Michigan State University

... willing to do so) because attempts at definition reify and alter what is really a fluid intellectual stance or approach to understanding the world around us. 12 As an intellectual stance, attitude, or approach to sociocultural reality, what we call “cultural relativism” must necessarily be appropria ...
Collections III: Hominids - South Kingstown High School
Collections III: Hominids - South Kingstown High School

... this site was used for. You must have written permission of a teacher or administrator for each artifact you bring back. You will also be responsible for returning the artifact before the end of the day. Your group is required to collect at least 2 artifacts. ...
Forbløffende praksisser (C.Hasse 2004)
Forbløffende praksisser (C.Hasse 2004)

... Culture, Memory and Self-hood: an interdisciplinary field Cultural psychology – psychological anthropology "We realized that if we could go and study carefully the diverse ways of different groups of human beings, like us in body and brain, strangely unlike us in all of their learned behaviour, we c ...
Document
Document

... Share interest in social relations, organization, and behavior Sociology traditionally focused on large, industrialized Western nations Anthropology traditionally focused on small, nonliterate populations ...
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 2

... It is the innovation or idea that does the moving. Relocation diffusion—the spreading of innovations by a migrating population—involves the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted the idea or innovation, and who carry it to a new, perhaps distant locale, where they disseminate it. Th ...
Slide 1
Slide 1

... social evolutionism: 1- different societies need to be understood as discrete individuals where each society making its evolutionary progress independently, 2- though discrete still all societies proceed for the same destination (human history is one story, not many), 3- differences between differen ...
Music 1253 Music and Society
Music 1253 Music and Society

... • Process whereby different cultures come into contact and adapt their cultural attributes • Similar notion to that of Cultural Imperialism except that it allows for active shapers of culture to adapt and evolve from contact with foreign sources, rather than simply having culture imposed on them ...
American Anthropology
American Anthropology

... form of functionalism is still a very active perspective in anthropology ...
HSP3M
HSP3M

... between sex and gender, according to anthropologists? How is gender culturally constructed? (ie: symbols, classifications, values, ehavior patterns). What is the early impact of gender? Describe some recent changes to gender roles. Why are some societies more accepting of the third gender / alternat ...
Boas - Andrews University
Boas - Andrews University

... Distinguishing between their social and religious dances, he even wrote out the music to their songs with notes and words. In his work he examined any single culture as a whole, including its religion, art, language, as well as the physical characteristics of the people. On this basis he tried to re ...
Ethics - Lagemaat - TOK-eisj
Ethics - Lagemaat - TOK-eisj

... • Moral values are simply customs or conventions that vary from culture to culture. • ‘Ethics’ and ‘morality’ are both derived from words that originally meant ‘custom’. ...
Микро/контракт/Авдашева/Гребнев
Микро/контракт/Авдашева/Гребнев

... life, which mankind has created for itself from the raw materials of existence”. In her view …each culture is self-contained, autonomous, separate but equal. Each makes sense in its own context, and all you have to do is know the context to understand what the people are doing and why they’re doing ...
CHAPTER 1 NOTES File
CHAPTER 1 NOTES File

... Traditionally the focus was on human evolution, Primatology, growth and development, human adaption, and forensics. Medical anthropology is a specialization that combines theoretical and applied approaches from culture and biological with the study of human health and disease. Today, molecular anthr ...
B. A Definition of Culture
B. A Definition of Culture

... derived from prior reasoning. This requirement creates an anthropological d ilemma, however, since an ethnographer must understand his/her observations in terms of their meanings within a particular cultural context, which may substantially depart from theoretical system chosen for interpretation. T ...
Careers in Anthropology
Careers in Anthropology

... Possible career paths include: international development, cultural resource management, the legislative branch, forensic and physical anthropology, natural resource management, and defense and security sectors. Non-profit and Community-based Careers Non-governmental organizations, such as internatio ...
Anthropology and Psychology
Anthropology and Psychology

... personal and social identity; the interactive field; the cultural relativism/determinism; the cultural transmission processes; the symbolic systems (magic, religion); the relationship between tradition and modernity, psychism and culture. Reference theories and models will be situated in their histo ...
Ethics “Moral Philosophy”
Ethics “Moral Philosophy”

... for women to wear bathing suits that were more than 6 inches above the knee” ...
Introduction to Ethical Theory II
Introduction to Ethical Theory II

... relativism is true, no one has a right to force his moral views on others.’ ...
Anthropology 151L NM HED Area III: Laboratory Science
Anthropology 151L NM HED Area III: Laboratory Science

... with biological differences and that these differences between so-called races relatively small in comparison to the difference between individuals within each race. Example of the kind of multiple choice question that could be asked: Choose which of the following statements best describes how anthr ...
Introduction 2007
Introduction 2007

... – making a living, distributing goods, reproduction, political patterns, religious systems, forms of communication and expressive aspects of culture such as art Copyright © Pearson Education Canada 2004 ...
6th Grade Social Studies
6th Grade Social Studies

... Use your Global Investigators Notebook (GLIN) and the resources on Moodle with lessons, vocabulary, and previous quizzes to help you review. Vocabulary You can study these also by using the Quizlet activities on Moodle. Themes  Culture is the mix of values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects ...
SoccioPP_ch04 - Philosophy 1510 All Sections
SoccioPP_ch04 - Philosophy 1510 All Sections

... The teachings of the Sophists were valuable to the extent that they were useful or helpful in forwarding the interests of those who hired their services. But their concern with practicality was also due to their contention that what is called “the truth” is subservient to power, that what matters mo ...
< 1 ... 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ... 33 >

Cultural relativism

Compare cross cultural sensitivity, moral relativism, aesthetic relativism, social constructionism, and cognitive relativism.Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.It was established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: ""...civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes."" However, Boas did not coin the term.The first use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary was by philosopher and social theorist Alain Locke in 1924 to describe Robert Lowie's ""extreme cultural relativism"", found in the latter's 1917 book Culture and Ethnology. The term became common among anthropologists after Boas' death in 1942, to express their synthesis of a number of ideas Boas had developed. Boas believed that the sweep of cultures, to be found in connection with any sub species, is so vast and pervasive that there cannot be a relationship between cultures and races. Cultural relativism involves specific epistemological and methodological claims. Whether or not these claims necessitate a specific ethical stance is a matter of debate. This principle should not be confused with moral relativism.
  • studyres.com © 2026
  • DMCA
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Report