| 单词 | cultural relativism |
| 释义 | > as lemmascultural relativism cultural relativism n. the theory that there are no objective standards by which to evaluate a culture and that a culture can only be understood in terms of its own values and customs; the practice of studying a culture from this viewpoint. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of history > [noun] > historical or cultural relativism historical relativism1893 cultural relativism1924 1924 A. L. Locke in Howard Rev. June 290 The extreme cultural relativism of Lowie leaves an open question as to the association of certain ethnic groups with definite culture-traits and culture types..under circumstances where there is evidently a greater persistence of certain strains and characteristics in their culture. 1942 R. Benedict in New Republic 2 Feb. 155 So far from denying cultural relativism, we need to take it into full acount if we are to understand those problems which lie beyond it. 1958 F. M. Keesing Cultural Anthropol. ii. 47 The scientific habit of looking at each people's standards and values objectively, seeing them as ‘relative’ to the particular view of life fostered within the culture concerned, has led some thinkers to a philosophic position often called ‘cultural relativism’. 1968 Internat. Encycl. Soc. Sci. III. 543/2 The methodology of cultural relativism rests on the assumption that the ethnologist is able to transcend, or to eliminate for the moment, his own cultural conditioning and values and to assume the subjective..mentality of an adherent of..the culture. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iv. 134 Imperialism..bred an awareness of cultural relativism at precisely the point where the absolute cultural hegemony of the imperialist nations needed to be affirmed. 1992 Mind 101 181 Methodological individualism, cultural relativism, and the relation between methodology in the social sciences and methodology in the natural sciences. < as lemmas |
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