Nepal B.sc Forestry syllabus-Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism.This slides describes about the difference of Ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism also.

1. Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is a belief that the norms, values, ideology,
customs, and traditions of one's own culture or subculture
are superior to those characterizing other cultural settings.
The term was coined by William Graham Sumner in his
Folkways (1906) and has long served as a cornerstone in the
social analysis of culture. While ethnocentrism arguably is a
universal phenomenon that facilitates cohesion and
continuity at all levels of social organization, it provides the
rationalization for attack on other cultures or subcultures in
its more extreme forms. It may, for example, motivate
criminalization of practices within subcultures or be used to
justify going to war with other nation states. Ethnocentrism is
intricately tied to definitions of deviance wherein the deviant
is seen as not only different, but also as morally inferior or
even evil. Members of the in group stereotype those in the
out group as ignorant, bad, or even subhuman and these
characterizations provide the basis for culture conflict.

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5. Cultural Relativism
• Cultural relativism is the idea that a person's
beliefs, values, and practices should be
understood based on that person's own culture,
rather than be judged against the criteria of
another.
• It was established
as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz
Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century
and later popularized by his students. Boas first
articulated the idea in 1887: "civilization is not
something absolute, but ... is relative, and ... our
ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our
civilization goes.