CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Cultural Relativism

Cultural Relativism

Book Synopsis

According to the text, Moral Relativism is the idea that there are no lesson unconditional standards at all, and that all lesson standards are relation to time, location, individual, or situation. In other phrases, all these suggests that lesson values are only legitimate relation to distinct culture or one-by-one alternatives, or to an continue very resolute inside the context of that distinct situational culture survival.

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), foremost American anthropologist best renowned for Patterns of Culture, fights back ethics as dependent cultural variable and the concept that a universal lesson standard will not be directed to persons whose culture does not accept it period.

By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), Margaret Mead offers a deeply insightful portrait of a woman who overcame the barriers of sexism to become one of the most compelling intellectual figures in twentieth-century American life. In this work, Mead defends Benedict's humanistic approach to anthropology and considers her most important works. Benedict's work is also presented in the context of her personal life. Benedict was a shy young woman who felt alienated from her conservative family and society's expectations. Ultimately, she defined her life through her extraordinary work in anthropology and a commitment to public service. Benedict believed that anthropology should speak to contemporary ethical and political questions. In addition to a selection of Benedict's anthropological writings, this edition includes new forewords by two leading Benedict scholars.

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