IMPORTANCE AND FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE

1. Culture helps the individual fulfill his potential as a human being.

2. Through the development of culture, man can overcome his physical disadvantages and allows himself with fire, clothing, food, and shelter.

3. Culture provides rules of proper conduct for living in a society

4. Culture also provides the individual his concept of family, nation, and class.

CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Practices considered immoral or taboo to a certain group of people but are accepted by other groups with a different cultural orientation.

CULTURAL RELATIVISM

According to Rosaldo (2003) Cultural relativism is in essence an

approach to the question of the nature and role of values in culture. If values and shared ideals which give rise to beliefsand norms of behavior around which a people or a group organizes its collective life, and goals, cultural relativism declares that these values are relative to the cultural ambiance out of which they arise.

According to Anthropology Cultural relativism is a key methodological

concept which is universally accepted within the discipline. The concept is based on theoretical considerations which are the key to the understanding of “ scientific” anthropology as they are the key to the understanding of anthropological frame of mind.

According to Glazer Cultural relativism is an anthropological approach which posits that all cultures are of equal value and need to be studied in a neutral point of view. The basis of cultural relativism is a scientific view of culture, which also rejects value judgments on culture.

According to Hunt (1998) The central point in cultural relativism is that in particular setting certain traits are right because they work in that setting while other traits are wrong because they clash painfully with parts of the culture.

Prepared by: Maria Shuzeth

D. Dela cruz