ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nancy Hughes, Moral Relativism, Cultural Relativism
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Our job is the understand things culturally (the differences) Cultural relativism: there is no stable ground to judge what other people do in other societies. This is the idea that a person"s beliefs, values and practices should be understood based on the person"s own culture, rather than be judged against the criteria of another. Dreams are not significant and are meaningless- psychologists. Moral relativism: concerned with the differences in moral judgments across to different people and cultures. Radical politics (to actually get something done in the name of change) requires intellectual conservatives (stop thinking in a certain way). Political paralysis (caused by the questions asked by the people who do not think about how they act, the way they take stands). Nancy hughes takes everything to be constructed by culture, even science. They say that postmodernism is bad (it means that its someone who. For a postmodernist everything is in the context of culture so there is.
