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What is Cultural Relativism

Chapter 11
Navigating Micro-Aggressions Toward Women in Higher Education
Judging other cultures by their own standards, not the standards that apply in your culture.
Published in Chapter:
Molding Me in Their Image
Romney S. Norwood (Georgia Perimeter College, USA)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5942-9.ch011
Abstract
This chapter examines how the paternalistic nature of academia shaped the author's development as a graduate student and as a young professor. Overcoming the oppression of a paternalistic culture is challenging for any woman, but even more so for women of color who are assumed to need even more steering, shaping, and molding. It is ironic that the discipline in which the author chose to pursue advanced studies, sociology, is a discipline that has a core goal of examining and challenging inequality. This, however, does not make it impervious to perpetuating inequality. This chapter examines how long it took to take control of shaping the author's own image and to learn to navigate a culture that is still heavily influenced by patriarchal standards.
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Chapter 71
Using the Internet to Study Human Universals
The tenet that all cultures are inherently different from one another and hence must be evaluated using their own idiosyncratic contexts. In this sense, it is antithetical to the existence of human universals.
Published in Chapter: Using the Internet to Study Human Universals; From: Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
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Chapter 173
Security of Web Servers and Web Services
Cultural relativism is the judgment of a particular culture in its own set of values, beliefs, and standards.
Published in Chapter: Security of Web Servers and Web Services; From: Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, Second Edition
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