LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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Question
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Studies have shown that in some tribal cultures, it is normal to have multiple wives. While it is not considered legal or common practice in many parts of the world, researches believe that an individual’s norms and actions should be understood by others in terms of that individual’s own cultural context. This concept is referred to as:
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Cultural boundaries
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Cultural interpretation
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Cultural relativism
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Cultural sensitivity
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Cultural relativism tries to counter ethnocentrism by promoting the understanding of cultural practices that are unfamiliar to other cultures such as eating insects, genocides or genital cutting. Take for example, the common practice of same-sex friends in India walking in public while holding hands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Culture describes the norms, behavior, beliefs, values, and materialistic objects that a society’s members share among themselves and pass to the next generations. When sociologists use the phrase “culture within us, they simply refer to these shared and learned ways.
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