{"id":1043,"date":"2026-08-09T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/comment-on-the-cultural-relativism-in-150-words-upsc-psir-2022-0907\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:53:33","slug":"comment-on-the-cultural-relativism-in-150-words-upsc-psir-2022-0907","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/comment-on-the-cultural-relativism-in-150-words-upsc-psir-2022-0907\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on the Cultural Relativism in 150 words."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Define cultural relativism \u2014 practices understood within their own cultural context, not judged by another\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Open with its epistemological claim (<b class=\"pq-sc\">Herskovits<\/b>) that no moral vantage point is truly neutral.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>Core claim \u2014 understand cultures on their own terms <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Melville Herskovits<\/b> \u2014 judgments mediated by enculturation; no neutral standpoint <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Franz Boas<\/b>, <i>The Mind of Primitive Man<\/i> \u2014 rejects racial &amp; civilizational hierarchy <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> corrective force \u2014 dismantles Eurocentric assumptions of progress <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> overlaps with multiculturalism, communitarian thought, the Asian-values debate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>It slides into moral relativism \u2014 if every culture is its own moral universe, there is no ground to criticise female genital cutting, caste discrimination, or repression defended as \u201ccultural.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Cultural relativism must be balanced with universal norms of dignity, justice and rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Understand cultures on their terms without surrendering cross-cultural moral judgment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[47],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[53],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1043","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-47","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-political-ideologies","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4637,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1043\/revisions\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}