A U.S. sociologist receives a grant to study racial and religious prejudice among the people of southeast Asia. The sociologist
makes a serious and unbiased effort to evaluate the norms, values, and customs of these groups in light of the distinctive cultures of which they are a part. This is an example ofA. cultural shock.B. ethnocentrism.C. cultural relativism.
Cultural relativism is the principle of regarding the beliefs, values and practices of a culture viewed from the viewpoint of that particular culture itself.
Cultural relativism tells us that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture instead of judging them using the criteria of another culture.
In this example, the sociologist receives a grant to study racial and religious prejudice among the people of southeast Asia. <u>He makes an effort to evaluate the norms, values and customs of these groups in light of the distinctive cultures of which they are part</u>. Thus, he is trying to <u>view this group's beliefs, values and practices from that group point of view instead that from his owns beliefs and prejudices</u>. Therefore, this would be an example of cultural relativism.
Environmental issues are those issues that arises from the environment due to anthropogenic activities and natural causes. The issues can be beyond the coping capacity of the nature or can be in coping capacity of nature. The examples are like degradation and imbalance in ecosystem
First she has to prepare for all that she's about to experience so as to ease getting off of cigarettes. This will make it easier to get rid of her addiction.
