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cultural relativism |
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cultural relativism, a concept that health and normality emerge within a social context and that the content and form of mental health will vary greatly from one culture to another. Differences may result from variations in stressors, symbolic interpretation, acceptance of expression and repression, and cohesion and tolerance of deviation of social groups. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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His mode of reasoning suggests that though he is now convinced about the diversity--or hybridity--of Chinese entrepreneurship, Yeung is reluctant to renounce his earlier cultural relativist position because "familism and guanxi relationships continue to provide the institutional foundations of Chinese capitalism" (p. Some of those who take this attitude are cultural relativists, for whom there are no standards of truth or value of universal applicability. They no longer are trapped in ethnocentric dismissal or in cultural relativist disengagement. |
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