2015•The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and NationalismRequires access
Cultural Relativism
Susan R. Trencher
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Abstract
In the decade 2000–10 there are two broad understandings of cultural relativism: modern and postmodern. In modern cultural relativism, cultural beliefs and behaviors are to be examined in relation to their culture. Since the mid‐twentieth century, in line with shifts toward literary and postmodern epistemology and method, cultural relativism more often than not refers to the view that cultural beliefs and behaviors are most appropriately seen as relative to each other.