Is cultural relativism good for our society? Cultural relativism is a belief where there are no absolute moral views or beliefs can be apply to all cultures‚ which makes “right” and “wrong” different in every society; what is considered “right” in one society may be considered “wrong” in another. Since no universal standard of morality exists‚ no one has the right to judge another society’s customs. If this belief is held true‚ then every culture will have their own set of “rules” to live by
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two perfect examples of real life accounts of the problems that they face in the field‚ and it is found that in order for anthropologists to be able to truly study a certain culture‚ they must understand the meanings of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. Ethnocentrism must be understood so that it can be avoided‚ because it is the belief in the superiority of one’s own ethnic group‚ which could ultimately make it very difficult to truly study and learn about a culture if you are constantly
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Response 1 Crimes that are committed by a person and are avoidable and detectable by outside body characteristics such as driving drunk should have every right to be prevented in this case. On the other hand crimes that cannot be detected or seen in this was should not try and be avoided because doing so one would impose on another’s right to freedom of thought. The Government and scientists have no right to change or even know the way a person thinks‚ but are in every right to prevent a crime
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Corruption “The Evil Phoenix” Subramanian Alias Vijay Pillay Stevens Institute of Technology Corruption “The Evil Phoenix” Corruption‚ a never heard fairy tale for some and a day to day life for others. It is a severe epidemic disease tough to cure. But the victims here are not just some people. It affects the entire world. Corruption is the biggest manifestation of greed and killer of the economic growth which has exponential systemic effects. It has been prevalent in the history and is expected
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Preventing Security Breaches Darleen Busot BIS/221 February 2‚ 2015 James Boykin Preventing Security Breaches The era of the Internet is giving people many tools and advantages that help them been available at any time and place and they are been more productive. It has also helped corporations becoming efficient and increased their exposure to the public. All pros come with cons‚ and the Internet cons are affecting people and corporations as well. People and companies are been exposed to the dark
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human service worker I almost certainly would come across many ethical predicaments that involve susceptible issues such as discrimination‚ social unfairness‚ and oppression‚ poverty‚ substance abuse and mental health issues. As a human service worker or provider my personal principles may become an ethical difficulty with reference to discrimination of any sort because of my private belief but of course I am conscious of how many ethical standards that can be challenged if I allow my individual view
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Relativism and absolutism are both equally important approaches when it comes to morality. They are both relevant in that they each follow along with one another in their approaches but both offer different directions and beliefs. Relativism is one of the challenges of morality and reflects upon the existence of morality in relation to culture‚ society‚ historical/era and individuals‚ only representing one of these relations but not the others. Absolutism also believes that morality has relation
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The authors describe cultural relativism in this chapter. They explain cultural relativism with some examples such as Callatians‚ who lived in India and ate the bodies of their dead father‚ and Eskimos‚ who are native people of Alaska and had distinct moral codes‚ such as marriages‚ sexual practices‚ and infanticide. For instance‚ infanticide was common in Eskimos’ society of the early and mid-20th century. The customs seemed that they had little respect for human life. So‚ the two examples seem
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different perspective and influence is very powerful. What do I mean by this? I mean as I went through blogs online about the movie there were several people who think that many of the precincts in New York City are corrupt. Now I’m sure there is corruption in the New York police system but you know what‚ it’s everywhere as well. Not just New York. Blogging is a new system online now for people to put down their thoughts and feeling about things and it’s a very depressing thing to read sometimes. Every
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Corruption is one of the deadly‚ undesirable and wicked sins that has been imposed on the innocent man by some hungry looking monsters. It is omnipresent‚ almost like a distorted‚ antithetical version of God for the present times. It doesn’t sound euphonious when we hear that it has not only led to the malfunctioning of the administrative system and poor law and order‚ but also some serious causes like poverty and redtapism‚ which has led to the society’s disability. It has distorted all values and
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