theory that a person's beliefs and values are best understood in the context of the person's own culture.

The idea that a culture item can be judged or understood only in relationship to the entire culture in which it is embedded.

the stance that outlooks, actions, morals, ideas, and attainments have to be perceived in the light of their own cultural milieu and not deemed with conjunction with the principles of a different cult [..]

The core thesis of cultural relativism is that there are no absolute standards of human cognition.

The view that the customs and ideas of a society must be viewed within the context of that society.

the attitude of trying to understand cultural practices in their own context, rather than judge them by the standards of other cultures. 

The reaction to the fact of cultural diversity in which one attempts to understand and judge the behavior of another culture in terms of its standards of good, normal, moral, legal, etc. rather than o [..]

The position that the values, beliefs and customs of cultures differ and deserve recognition and acceptance. This principle was established by the German anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) in the first few decades of the 20th century. Cultural relativism as a movement was in part a response to Western ethnocentrism. Between World War I and World [..]

the view that right and wrong are to be determined from within a particular society or cultural group. Generally thought to entail that there is no universal or objective truth about right or wrong.

The belief that no country is superior to another when comparing the systems of morality, law, politics, etc.

The proposition that cultural differences should not be judged by absolute standards.