Cultural Relativism

Topic 1: Cultural Relativism Cultural relativism, as defined by Ruth Benedict in her article A Defense of Cultural Relativism, is the theory that human morality is based on the society in which an individual is a part of. The basis of a society?s morality comes from cultural traditions, habits, and what the majority believes to be right and wrong. Benedict uses her anthropological studies to support her ideas concerning cultural relativism. The theory of cultural …

…is all about and what makes it work. If everyone followed their own ideas of what is moral and immoral society could not function. I believe that morals come from more than one source and no one thing can be given credit for the morals an individual possesses. Society may play a roll in the morality of human beings, but it does not account for all morality as claimed in the theory of cultural relativism.