| The cynicism of many claims of cultural relativism can also be seen in the fact that far too often they are for foreign consumption only. |
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| But Western philosophy preaches that cultural relativism starts from one's own. |
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| By adopting a muted form of cultural relativism, the scientific establishment seeks to coexist with other points of view. |
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| According to cultural relativism, slavery is wrong if our society disapproves of it. |
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| That is something that you often hear about from the perspective of cultural relativism. |
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| Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism. |
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| One wonders if in the morass of cultural relativism, the only sane ground is to eschew all taboo. |
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| The three introductory readings come out of the rich anthropological literature on culture and cultural relativism. |
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| World music has long been mustered by both camps to provide evidence for new theories, whether they stress cultural relativism or universalism. |
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| The cultural relativism debate has been going on for more than two decades. |
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| We cannot let cultural relativism becomes the last refuge of repression. |
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| Human rights were universal and could not be judged based on any cultural relativism. |
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| Costa Rica was an ardent defender of cultural diversity and pluralism, which should not, however, open the door to cultural relativism. |
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| There is the recommendation here for an equalitarian rather than a hierarchical cultural relativism. |
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| It is the exact opposite to the cultural relativism which pervades so much of our world. |
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| We have for too long taken an attitude of cultural relativism towards women immigrants for granted. |
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| States must not accept any religious or cultural relativism of womenÃs human rights. |
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| No cultural relativism may be invoked to justify practices that infringe the fundamental rights of migrant women and women of migrant origin. |
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| If we adopt the stance that it's fine to disregard generalisations such as cultural relativism we may actually be falling victim to just such a thing. |
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| Respect for cultural diversity can never justify partial violation of human rights on the grounds of cultural relativism. |
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| The Euro-Arab dialogue can significantly benefit from converging views in the debate on universalism and cultural relativism, on the connotations between culture and nation, on human rights, cultural diversity and pluralism. |
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| Despite the fact that ethical standards are deeply rooted in culture, and that societies differ widely from one another, it is impossible to reduce ethics to cultural relativism. |
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| Fundamentalist approaches to the organization of society, arguments based on cultural relativism, and the highlighting of tensions within democratic systems all serve to undermine the universal value of democracy. |
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| As a society, we must both avoid the stigmatism of women who belong to certain minority groups and cultural relativism, which consists of suspending the application of a right in virtue of cultural and religious requirements. |
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| A liberalised society exhibits a mix of two ways of thinking: ethical pluralism and cultural relativism, which could be called secularist relativism. |
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| Cultural anthropology in particular has emphasized cultural relativism, holism, and the use of findings to frame cultural critiques. |
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| It allegedly involves cultural relativism, attributes to culture an unchanging essence, treats culture as a determinant of human behaviour, encourages segregation and eventually leads to social fragmentation. |
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| Wissler merged the culture traits approach developed by the evolutionists with Boas's cultural relativism and used the resultant hybrid perspective to investigate the indigenous cultures of the Americas. |
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| This perspective became known as cultural relativism. |
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| Thus the risk of cultural relativism, which in the name of diversity would recognize cultural practices that infringe the fundamental principles of human rights, has been eliminated. |
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| The threefold crisis of society: economic, spiritual and moral is marked by a dangerous loss of human and religious values and by an ethic and cultural relativism. |
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| Moreover, any crud rating will be prone to cultural relativism. |
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| It is these attempts to pervert cultural relativism and to negate ethnic and racial plurality that the opponents of racism and racial discrimination have to confront. |
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| When confronted with the cannibals, Crusoe wrestles with the problem of cultural relativism. |
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| Inquiry in sociocultural anthropology is guided in part by cultural relativism, the attempt to understand other societies in terms of their own cultural symbols and values. |
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| Yet within philosophy, this stance of cultural relativism is undermined and made inapplicable since such value judgement is itself a product of a given culture. |
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