The document discusses the importance and functions of culture. It provides rules for proper conduct in society and allows humans to overcome physical disadvantages through tools like fire, clothing, shelter and food. Culture also provides concepts of family, nation and class. The document then discusses cultural relativism, which is the idea that practices considered immoral by some groups may be accepted by others with different cultural orientations. According to sources cited, cultural relativism holds that values and beliefs arise from cultural contexts and are therefore relative to those cultures. It is a key methodological concept in anthropology used to understand cultures neutrally without value judgments.

1. IMPORTANCE AND
FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE

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Culture helps the individual fulfill his potential
as a human being.
Through the development of culture, man can
overcome his physical disadvantages and
allows himself with fire, clothing, food, and
shelter.
Culture provides rules of proper conduct for
living in a society
Culture also provides the individual his
concept of family, nation, and class.

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

4. 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 beliefs
and 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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Prepared by:
Maria Shuzeth D.
Dela cruz