Cultural relativism is an opinion that was established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by his students. Boas first articulated the idea in 1887: `...civilization is not something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our ideas and conceptions are true only ....
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the practice of judging a culture by its own standards
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(from the article `Boas, Franz`) ...leaving behind—at least temporarily—other peoples. They believe that the differences between `civilized` and `primitive` peoples are the result of ... ...approach to culture change. The comparison of cultures that arose in early 20th-century anthropology produced diverse ...
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(Learning Modules / Psychology / Measuring the unmeasurable) The idea that one can not judge a behaviour properly unless it is viewed in the context of the culture in which it originates.
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The attitude that in order to understand the traits of another culture, one must view them within the context of that culture.
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