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Wikipedia: Cultural Relativism

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The English-language Wikipedia article on cultural relativism, covering Franz Boas's 1887 formulation and its methodological role in American anthropology. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Citation
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
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Wikipedia: Cultural Relativism
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Claims Backed By This Source (29 claims)

This source backs 29 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 3 connected. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Open Questions, 16 claims: 12 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
  • Social Theory and Concepts, 8 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 connected, 3 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

19

Open Questions

Does cultural relativism, as a methodological principle for understanding cultures on their own terms, necessarily entail moral relativism, foreclosing any cross-cultural ethical judgment?Does cultural relativism's refusal to judge a practice by an outside standard leave it unable to condemn practices most societies regard as harmful, or does that criticism mistake a method of understanding for an endorsement of whatever it studies?

Social Theory and Concepts

Cultural Relativism

Sources

Wikipedia: Cultural Relativism

Scholarly debate

1

Social Theory and Concepts

Cultural Relativism

Holds

1

Social Theory and Concepts

Cultural Relativism

Connected

3

Open Questions

Does cultural relativism, as a methodological principle for understanding cultures on their own terms, necessarily entail moral relativism, foreclosing any cross-cultural ethical judgment?Does cultural relativism's refusal to judge a practice by an outside standard leave it unable to condemn practices most societies regard as harmful, or does that criticism mistake a method of understanding for an endorsement of whatever it studies?

Social Theory and Concepts

Cultural Relativism

General References

5

Open Questions

Does cultural relativism, as a methodological principle for understanding cultures on their own terms, necessarily entail moral relativism, foreclosing any cross-cultural ethical judgment?Does cultural relativism's refusal to judge a practice by an outside standard leave it unable to condemn practices most societies regard as harmful, or does that criticism mistake a method of understanding for an endorsement of whatever it studies?

Social Theory and Concepts

Cultural Relativism
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