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Society, 2008
The meanings and implications of cultural relativism have been debated for decades. Reprising this debate, Roger Sandall offers a pointed critique of the anthropological concept of culture and identifies relativism as the internal and corrosive enemy of the open society. I challenge his reading of our predicament. Considering the work of Franz Boas and
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The meanings and implications of cultural relativism have been debated for decades. Reprising this debate, Roger Sandall offers a pointed critique of the anthropological concept of culture and identifies relativism as the internal and corrosive enemy of the open society. I challenge his reading of our predicament. Considering the work of Franz Boas and
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Anthropological Quarterly, 2007
Cultural relativism, or at least the idea of cultural relativism, is in trouble. Not only is it the case, as Robert Ulin suggests in an adjacent article in this collection, that "cultural relativism is among the most misunderstood yet publicly important concepts associated with twentieth century anthropology that endures today." It is also one of the ...
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Cultural relativism, or at least the idea of cultural relativism, is in trouble. Not only is it the case, as Robert Ulin suggests in an adjacent article in this collection, that "cultural relativism is among the most misunderstood yet publicly important concepts associated with twentieth century anthropology that endures today." It is also one of the ...
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Cultural Relativism and Psychiatric Illness
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1989Psychiatry has had a long-standing association with sociology and, especially, cultural anthropology. These social sciences have been influential in developing the concept of cultural relativism and applying it to psychiatry, sometimes in a challenging way and with much detriment.
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2010
There are tremendous variations in how people carry on their lives across cultures. All cultures have some sort of system of “public morals” or norms or rules that provide a structure that guides behavior. Cultural relativism holds that moral principles are relative, so that there is no such thing as a “one-size-fits-all” morality.
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There are tremendous variations in how people carry on their lives across cultures. All cultures have some sort of system of “public morals” or norms or rules that provide a structure that guides behavior. Cultural relativism holds that moral principles are relative, so that there is no such thing as a “one-size-fits-all” morality.
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1985
Any philosopher of science who attempts to do field- work amongst the tribe of anthropologists is in for severe culture shock. I’d like to illustrate with two ethnographic examples.
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Any philosopher of science who attempts to do field- work amongst the tribe of anthropologists is in for severe culture shock. I’d like to illustrate with two ethnographic examples.
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CULTURAL RELATIVISM ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS
2005Abstract Anyone from a democratic country who claims human rights ought to be universal can expect to be accused of cultural imperialism. Lee Kwan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore, is probably the best-known contemporary exponent of this argument.
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