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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Cultural relativism"”.
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Cultural Relativism in the Age of Modernity: Are Human Rights Still up for Debate?
… that don't fit in with their own cultures. While cultural arguments can be valid, they can also be used by human rights violators as an excuse not to implement human rights norms. While the facets of modernity (the strong state, globalization and capitalism) that benefit elites are readily …
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Essays in the philosophy of psychiatry
… any clear refutations of labeling theory or cultural relativism, I point out the serious disadvantages of holding either view. I argue that in the absence of compelling reasons to endorse either labeling theory or cultural relativism, we are within our rights to remain realists about …
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Aspects of culture in South African psychiatry
… state to legitimate apartheid. The concept of cultural relativism, though often associated with liberal views internationally, is linked with state policies in South Africa. Some South African social scientists, therefore, strongly question the notion of relativism. This reaction unfortunately …
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Beijing, bed, and breakfast : unpacking transient identities
Modernity requires people to appreciate cultural relativism, and to understand the contextual legitimacy of other people's way of life and values. This thesis explores the nature and use of physical spaces to increase the relativistic understanding of culture. Two notions of interior don by the bed …
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The relevance of culture and religion to the understanding of children's rights in South Africa
… The paper simply uses the universalism and cultural relativism debate as an entry point to a discussion of children's rights in the South Africa. It will explore the extent to which culture and religion influence and impact the interpretation of children's constitutional rights which are …
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Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision
… contribute to the etic conversation. Empathy and cultural relativism are vital tools in understanding ancient practices and taboos.</p>
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The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate: A Neo-Hegelian Aufhebung
… reject these proposals from concerns of both cultural relativism and state paternalism. I argue that a neo-Hegelian approach is sensitive to both sides of the dispute. My approach includes particular features of our Western democratic societies while also working with freedom as the …
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Race, culture and social work education in the South African interregnum : a contextual analysis of attitudes and practice in the period 1990-1994
… terms by reference to a specific form of cultural relativism rather than overt racist argument. With the dramatic political changes heralded by the unbanning of anti-apartheid political organisations in 1990 South Africa entered an uncertain interregnum period in which the existing …
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Theories of the mind and the disciplining of anthropology, c.1875-1914
… from race to culture, evolutionary hierarchy to cultural relativism. Neither set of heuristics is warranted by the historical sources. Drawing on material from Germany, France, Britain, and the United States, this research recovers lost transnational debates concerning the human mind and the …
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Social Anthropology and British Society, c. 1920-1975
… an anthropologically-inflected discourse of cultural relativism had become widespread in the social sciences. The thesis thus reveals a rich tradition of inquiry that troubles divisions between histories of colonial and metropolitan social scientific research.
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Ndeme ya folukuloo "folklore" khau u vhuedzedza mikhwa kha vhana ho sedzwa Mvelele ya Tshivenda
… Ṱhoḓisiso iyi yo ḓisendeka nga thyiori i no pfi ‘Cultural Relativism’. Mutumbuli wa thyiori iyi ndi Franz Boas henengei murahu nga ‘20th century’. Thyiori iyi yo vhonala yo tea vhunga i tshi lwela u anḓanya mikhwa na vhuḓifari ha lushaka na mvelele yalwo. I hanedzana na fhungo ḽa u nyadza kana u …
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Margins of appreciation, cultural relativity and the European Court of Human Rights
… of the margin of appreciation does not amount to cultural relativism even in the expanded Council of Europe.
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Cultural Mapping of a Folkloric People
… of this research is to understand the cultural perceptions and perspectives that go into their folklore. From this understanding folklore has applicable functions in its role affecting the understanding of migration trends, societal framework, behavioral functions and the purpose of …
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Rethinking Child Trafficking in Nepal: Victimhood, Agency and Beyond
… the universal notion of ‘childhood’, and ‘cultural relativism’. This facilitates an investigation into the applicability of the international human rights framework to the reality of specific socio-economic situations. Despite deploying a human rights standard in legislations and policies, …
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An exploration of the influence of cultural variability on members of multicultural student groups as they work together toward the attainment of a mutual goal.
… thesis explores the influence of culture on multicultural student groups as they work together towards the attainment of a mutual goal. Additionally,the study includes the contribution of interpersonal factors to the adaptation process students as they interact with each other. Multicultural of …
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Culture, crystallisation and courtrooms: the legal challenges presented by the criminalisation of child soldier recruitment
… of the defence of mistake, and accounting for cultural relativism concerns. It is argued that the two courts have been, for the most part, successful in combatting these challenges, while giving effect to the provisions of the Rome Statute, and ensuring that child protection is the paramount …
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Protection of Personal Data in su-Saharan Africa
… of the old debates engraved in universalism and cultural relativism, the main argument held in this discourse is that Africa s collectivism denies an individual a space to advance claims for privacy. The present study sought to interrogate this dominant discourse and in particular investigating …
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Protection of Personal Data in su-Saharan Africa
… of the old debates engraved in universalism and cultural relativism, the main argument held in this discourse is that Africa s collectivism denies an individual a space to advance claims for privacy. The present study sought to interrogate this dominant discourse and in particular investigating …
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Protection of Personal Data in su-Saharan Africa
… of the old debates engraved in universalism and cultural relativism, the main argument held in this discourse is that Africa s collectivism denies an individual a space to advance claims for privacy. The present study sought to interrogate this dominant discourse and in particular investigating …
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