culture and reality

Key words

Words

Explanation

World view

A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group.

Relativistic

Cultural relativism is the outlook that no culture is superior to any other culture when comparing systems of morality, law, politics, etc.

culture

Ethnocentric culture Ethnocentric culture is an affinity to think that one’s cultural group is centrally significant, and that all other groups are considered in relation to one's own.

Culture universal

The culture prevalent in the world.

Culture and Reality
We are living in the age of postmodernism, post modernism is a world view 1, and it is not a single world view at all. There were so many world views before

this, not before, but simultaneously too. But we are discussing here the most prominent world view of the age. It is obvious that world views generate cultural values and norms. So the contemporary culture also said “postmodern culture”. This term may use in political science, and “Relativistic culture” may use as a sociological term.
The postmodern culture (relativistic culture) followed by the modern culture
(universal culture) is the corollary of western philosophical history and intellectual movements i.e. enlightenment and romanticism etc. Before the

modern culture, in premodern (traditional) era, ethnocentric culture was believed. The journey from the ethnocentric culture to relativistic culture or from premodern

culture

to

postmodern

culture

is

so

crucial

and

argumentative, as it is very hard to modify someone ideas and values. So many wars were fought for the sustainability and implementation of specific culture.
First, I want to introduce the mentioned cultural views and then will be presented a comparative analysis of these views.
Premodern culture
The

worldview

of

premodernism

(before

the

17th

Century

and

the

Enlightenment) was controlled by