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    Assignment 208 Task B Bi) Laws relating to health and safety Health and safety at work act 1974 - is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety. > Control of Substances Hazardous to Health 2002 (COSHH) - Care providers must protect staff and service users from harm by ensuring that potentially

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    cultures‚ religions and identities. It is this increased desire for tolerance that has swayed many away from the idea of moral absolutism‚ which asserts that there are moral facts that are independent of human opinion‚ and towards the idea of moral relativism which states that there are no set facts about which actions are right and wrong‚ but rather that they are only relative to a person or group. In this relativist view‚ morality is a creation of our own emotions and desires and thus there can never

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    is relative is self-refuting. The idea of moral relativism is that different civilizations have different moral beliefs‚ and that there is no absolute moral truth. “There is no actual standard that makes one societal code better than any other.” Each society lives by its cultural norms‚ and if someone from another culture came and did something different from the norm‚ then that person would be judged. One of the problems with moral relativism is that we cannot criticize someone for bad behavior

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    Despite the different forms of relativism in the end they are all constitute to the construction of the meaning‚ thus the social constructions and symbolic interactions are all significant when examining the problems existing with relativism. Relativism as a whole incorporates many strengths and weaknesses. However‚ for many the problems of relativism within the study of deviance underpin the strengths. Miller and Holstein (2007) The central problem deriving from relativism is that deviance and crimes

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    Cultural relativism is defined as the idea that a person actions or behavior should be judged within the context of that person’s culture. While this seems like a simple concept‚ it can be difficult for many people to fully accept (Eriksen 73). Whether this is caused by ignorance or a negative bias of the culture being analyzed as a whole‚ the most effect method to increase cultural relativism is to increase awareness of the differences between cultures

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    William H. Shaw: Ethical Relativism Ethical relativism is a concept in which most simple minded individuals adhere to. According to definition in the chapter‚ ethical relativism is the normative theory that what is right is what the culture or individual says is right. Shaw argues that it is not very plausible to say that ethical relativism is determined by what a person thinks is right and wrong. He gives reason that it “collapses the distinction between thinking something is right and it’s actually

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    late 1700’s‚ when a catastrophic event permanently altered how individuals rationalize. The disastrous event was none other than the Lisbon earthquake. In essence‚ this incident was a culture shock for people in society‚ which overturned previous ethics theorist perceived about the universe. During the eighteenth century a movement known as the Enlightenment movement was a pivotal time when scientist such as Galileo and Newton originally redefined the laws of nature. Significantly‚ this

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    studies‚ there is a balance. There is a balance‚ especially‚ in the continuum of the relationship between the concepts of cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is defined as “a point of view that one’s own way of life is to be preferred above all others” (Rosado). This is an interesting viewpoint on life‚ contrasted by the definition of cultural relativism‚ which is the view that “values that are established by a culture are relative to the cultural ambiance out of which they arise”

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    agree on a set of morals to abide by‚ and therefore our world is saturated with the ideals of moral relativism‚ whether or not we see it blatantly. Moral relativism is often given the stigma of sprouting impurity or immorality‚ given the fact that it does not accept that there is a universal moral codex. As the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy states‚ the “most serious objection to moral relativism

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    Cultural relativism is simply explained as such that a culture of some sort has their own set of moral codes and beliefs where they all agree that whatever is the rules they must follow because they believe it is morally correct and ethical. For example‚ in the Philippines‚ president Rodrigo Duterte believes in the extrajudicial killings of drug users and drug dealers because it is morally right to cleanse their society from it. People in that culture believes that it is correct because they all

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