Culture Relativism

Culture Relativism

Introduction

Culture can be explained as the range of human patterns of behavior, learned over time. The term was used in 1871, by Edward B., Tylor, an English Anthropologist, in his book Primitive Culture. According to Tylor, the culture is the composed of habits and capabilities, customs, morals, law, art, belief and knowledge, gained by people while loving together as a society. As the societies have been brought closer to work with each other in achieving mutual objectives, the importance of culture has risen significantly. Organizations provide training to their managers and staff for meeting cultural challenges and learning about the values and beliefs of the people belonging to different cultures. While different cultural people live together around the globe today, social issues and problems arriving due conflict of cultures is evident in some areas, while people in other regions have adopted some of the major cultural practices of the host society.

This has created new cultures which has strong sense of belonging to the parent culture while apparent looks of the host culture (Alexander, J. C. 1995). More people in developing economies have been exposed to different cultures during their childhood and thus are more adaptable to new cultures and believe. They value other cultures and their norms and work well with people who belong to different cultures. Even in the today's global world, one could find people having the same old ethnocentrism, which is of the view that only their culture has the perfection and best practices. They seldom or don't expect others culture to be of value and such people develop great resentment in a global environment. We will be exploring the composition of culture and will look into the cultural relativism and its importance in today's social environment.

Discussion

Culture and its Components

Cultural relativism is considered to be a principle that had been instituted as axiomatic in the anthropological research by Franz Baos in the initial decade of the twentieth century (Alexander, J. C. 1995). The cultural relativism is known to be the view that the ethical and the moral systems have equal validity and not one particular system could be deemed as better than the other one. This brings forward the notion that there are no given standards of evil or good, so the judgment of what is right and what is considered to be wrong is just the perception of the society. This constitute that ...