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Importance of cultural relativism in attaining cultural understanding.

EXPLANATION:

Cultural Relativism allows anthropologists and different social scientists to pick out their cultural biases
and assumptions and place them to one facet, to understand other cultures on their own phrases.

Being capable of that, other humans have special practices from you and that what they do might also
have a purpose that isn’t right now obvious to learn.

In my view, it's miles viable to concentrate to a specific perspective absolutely and then, having assessed
it with an open mind, disregard it.

But one should be able to do the first element, and admit that perhaps one might be wrong or have an
incomplete misunderstanding.

Cultural relativism offers records from the perspective of someone raised in the situation culture rather
than the goal attitude of someone not raised within the problem culture.

Cultural relativism breaks the tyranny of cultural dominance.

Cultural Relativism is a concept to explain why people and businesses can enjoy the identical
phenomenon otherwise because of their position.

What is skilled as precise for one may be revel in as horrific by means of other.

People also observe their very own cultural standards for judging the ideals, customs, and values of
other groups.

Cultural relativism is an ethic which includes beliefs, values, and customs.

It is the idea that someone's beliefs and practices must be understood based on that man or woman's
very own culture.

Obviously, relativism poses positive issues while from trying to understand the arena we bypass on to
taking movement inside the globe and right choices are not constantly clean to find.

Proponents of cultural relativism also tend to argue that the norms and values of one tradition ought to
no longer be evaluated using the norms and values of other.

Cultural relativism is an attitude that is of essential methodological importance, as it calls attention to


the significance of the context in understanding the meaning of unique human ideals.
*Analyze the significance of cultural, social, political and economic symbols and practices

These things are significant because it depicts certain aspects of living, certain cultures and traditions of
people. Practices such as fiestas in the modern time helps human connect from their cultures that was
inherited from their ancestors.

Symbols serve as an identity or basis of a culture.

Symbols are very important for cultures because they help a group create the culture itself.

Symbols are important because they help people compose meaning in their interactions with one
another.

Cultural symbols can be religious or spiritual, or they can represent the ideology or philosophy of a
culture's language, values and traditions. Cultural symbols include signs, emblems, hand gestures, flags,
animals, language, gestures, values, customs, heritage, music, colors, and many more.

Social symbols – relating to human societies and its modes of organization (i.e., social classes, social
problems, social issues, etc.) the white dove as a sign of peace, red heart for love, the traffic signs,
health and medical signs and many more,

Political symbols – used to represent a political standpoint; seen in various media and forms such as
banners, flag, motto. The symbolism can occur in various media including banners, pictures, and flags.
For example, Red flags have traditionally been flown by socialists, left-wing radicals, and communist
groups to represent the "blood of the workers".

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the
freedom of others.”

Economic symbols those relating to economic activities such as production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services. Among the most common economic symbols are the currencies or
money we are using, the value of which varies depending on the economic status of the country.

*Explain the context, content, processes, and consequences of socialization

SOCIALIZATION

When we say socialization it is one of the crucial aspect in human development. This is a fundamental
process wherein pass through by the culture in their young generation since it is learning from childhood
days. The people adopted it in their norms, values, behaviors.

The context of culture

Socialization happen in the socio economic and cultural environment. The one who affect the
socialization are the family members,schools, peer groups, the media, religious organizations, and the
larger society.Each of these circumstances donates to forming an individual's theories, stances, and
behaviors. Family plays a fault-finding duty in early socialization, trailed by schools and peers as things
evolve. Cultural, financial, factual, and governmental determinants influence the principles and norms
that are gave all the while the socialization process.

The content of socialization is it depends on the norms and values in the society, their roles and
identities and the belief system.

*Analyze the forms and functions of social organizations

In sociology, a social organization is a pattern of relationships between and among individuals and social
groups. Characteristics of social organization can include qualities such as sexual composition,
spatiotemporal cohesion, leadership, structure, division of labor, communication systems, and so on

A spatio-temporal cohesive network represents a social network in which people often interact closely
in both space and time.

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