"Cultural relativity" means that the way people think, behave, and view the world is shaped by their own culture, and it's important to understand and respect the differences between cultures.
Full definition
African American Art and Postmodernism By the mid - to late 1980s earlier definitions of African American art would be supplanted by the postmodernist tenets
of cultural relativity, art - as - performance, critical inquiries of art and society through one's work, and interrogations of identity, geography, and history.
What we learn
from cultural relativity is firstly this: our cultural convictions and practices are always relative, relative to the time in which we live, the position we choose to take, and the cultural inheritance which has shaped us.
Cultural relativity is a reminder of these contextual factors in the specification of values.
The gods of
cultural relativity, like most gods, are not entirely benign, however, and certainly not tame.
Global consciousness is causing us to discover and acknowledge both cultural diversity and
cultural relativity.
In other words, we humans are subject to
cultural relativity.
Others are texts that need explaining away by appeals to
cultural relativity (although no principled guidelines exist about when that explanation should and should not be applied).
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the cultural relativity argument which assumes that «the Bible is an old book from a different culture, so we can't take it seriously in the modern world.»
Third, we should study the Bible, aware of
the cultural relativity through which we perceive and experience Christian existence.
Cultural relativity isn't the only problem with emphasizing 2000.
The «Troeltschian» questions that I have raised — about historical and
cultural relativity, about the relation of Christianity to other faiths, and about the relation of Christianity to the methods and findings of modern science — are not foreign to pastors and members of their congregations.
Sociologists also deal with such topics as the components of culture, i.e., beliefs, values, language, and norms; cultural dynamics; cultural integration; cultural change; ideal culture, what people profess to follow, and real culture, how people actually behave in relation to these claims; ethnocentrism, the proclivity to see one's culture as the best and consequently all others as inferior; and
cultural relativity.
Though he mostly confines his discussion to «children and idiots,» similar themes have been expressed by those who advocate concepts and paradigms of
cultural relativity.
The deer that is killed has not had its individual right to life upheld by either us or the wolf, but in the case of natural communities, we should adopt a strategy of
cultural relativity and allow animals and plants to do as they do to each other even if we would not like it to be done to us.
By the mid - to late 1980s earlier definitions of African American art would be supplanted by the postmodernist tenets of
cultural relativity, art - as - performance, critical inquiries of art and society through one's work, and interrogations of identity, geography, and history.