ABOUT WELFARE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT by Angelica-Nicoleta NECULĂESEI

“…This article aims to briefly analyze the research efforts on measuring welfare indices in terms of cultural relativism. It presents the limitations of GDP and some of the proposed alternatives over time, to understand the wideness and interest in this topic, but also the consequences of imposing a certain type of indicators to reflect the progress and welfare of a country. …”
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The Debate Between Post-Development and Its Critics by Tomáš Profant

“…The article presents this debate and focuses on neopopulism in post-development, or more particularly on romanticization, essentialization, the rejection of modern technologies and cultural relativism. It discusses the problem of the homogenization of the development discourse, practice and agency in ‘development’. …”
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Corruption and Culture: Revisiting the Claim of its Relationship by Srirejeki Kiky

“…This paper highlight the importance of understanding cultural relativism before judging the claim of a vile relationship between corruption and culture. …”
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Analiza contextual-ecologică a grupurilor în societățile complexe by Petru Iluț

“…The tension between cultural relativism (multiculturalism) and universalistic values (human rights) is underlying. …”
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Change of human rights perspective in Iran by Davoodifard, Hassan, Jawan, Jayum

“…This article departs from the Universal, Cultural Relativism, and Islamic perspective of human rights and defends the Universal perspective of human rights in general. …”
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La société multiculturelle selon Jürgen Habermas (II) by Denis Goeldel

“…Habermas now seems to join a certain cultural relativism and advocates for a “unification” with non-Western – “Arab-Muslim” cultures. …”
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Imaginários midiáticos: uma reflexão a partir de narrativas intertextuais e imagens híbridas by Rogério Luiz Covaleski

“…It deals with contemporary narratives that seek to produce veridical connotation, which drives the image producers to the cultural relativism of discourses – signs for interpretation, recognition and stimulation of the public they dialogue with. …”
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Social constructivism and its implications for critical media studies by Wilhelm Kempf

“…Defining a third path between cultural imperialism and a naïve understanding of cultural relativism, the paper finally discusses the methodological basis on which media criticism can build.…”
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil vs. Sterba’s Problem of Specificity: Which Is the Real Problem? by Michael S. Jones

“…In this article I will argue that Sterba’s argument involves a problematic sorites-type paradox that, in order to be consistent, he should view as undermining his argument, since in his previous work on ethics he viewed this same sort of problem as counting as a significant objection to moral cultural relativism. I show how his arguments involve a sorites-like paradox, explain how this is damaging to the argument from evil, and conclude by offering suggestions for how Sterba might address this weakness.…”
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“NORMATIVE POWER” OF ASEAN: A SUBJECT FOR DISCUSSION by K. A. Efremova

“…ASEAN promotes the so-called “Asian values” (collectivism, state paternalism, cultural relativism, non-intervention into each other’s domestic affairs, etc.) through interregional arrangements with other states and international groupings, as well as through multilateral forums where it plays the central role. …”
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Media Imaginary: a reflection from intertextual narratives and hybrid images by Rogério Luiz Covaleski

“…It deals with contemporary narratives that seek to produce veridical connotation, which drives the image producers to the cultural relativism of discourses – signs for interpretation, recognition and stimulation of the public they dialogue with. …”
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The physics of conservation culturomics: the mass-energy-information equivalence principle to address misrepresented controversies by Andreas Y. Troumbis

“…In the era of staggering information technologies, Internet use proliferation and cultural relativism, reliable information on conservation knowledge vs. often unfounded story-tellings is a sine qua non for the development of badly needed modern global conservation strategies, targets, and goals.…”
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The role of exoticism in international contemporary art in the era of globalization - an empirical study of international art magazines from 1971 to 2010 by Kusuk Yun

“…In trying to enhance global diversity and cultural relativism, an exotic cultural form has emerged. …”
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Le numérique au service de l'adaptation d'étudiants allophones à la micro-communauté d'une grande école française by Isabelle Salengros-Iguenane

“…The relevance of this approach is shown with regard to knowledge construction and transformation, learner responsibility, production in French, exchange with fellow French students, and the development of cultural relativism. The results of this longitudinal study, especially their stability over time, might be of interest for the implementation of other Internet-based training programs wishing to embrace the complexity and variability inherent in the cultural dimension of language learning.…”
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Globalisation and western music historiography by Romanou Katy

“…Concurrently, countries that have been developing by following Western Europe as a prototype, are leading today some past phase of Western development, which, with the ideas of cultural relativism prevailing, are not considered inferior.…”
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The worlds of queer cinema: from aesthetics to activism by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt

“…Violence at pride marches in India, Serbia, and South Africa raises questions about the compatibility of liberalism and cultural relativism, global citizenship and human rights, sexual identity and national sovereignty. …”
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome prevention and transmission liability by Monica Paraguassu

“…Methods: A retrospective and prospective interdisciplinary theoretical study, in the field of public health policy and legal-international-criminal-environmental terms, concerning the execution of the perspective of universal human rights considering cultural relativism, the hypothesis of the right to the difference and the peculiarities of the matter of affective-sexual relationships and HIV/AIDS transmission. …”
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Comments on Warren Wagar's "Toward a Praxis of World Integration" by Val Moghadam

“…Similarly, I have addressed the deficiencies of political cultural movements based on various claims of identity (sec Moghadam, 1994), argued against a "mindless cultural relativism" (Moghadam, 1989), and described a secular intellectualism in the Middle East (Moghadam, 1990). …”
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Academic Writing: Critics of the Traditional EAP Approach by S. A. Sheypak

“…The critical revision of the traditional EAP methods requires implementing a discourse analytical approach and cultural relativism in Academic Writing course. A review of critical studies on Academic Writing concludes that the criticism of the traditional EAP methods is developed on the basis of concepts worked in the Russian rhetoric tradition by researchers of the Bakhtin circle. …”
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RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE GUARDIANS TO THE INHERITANCE OF MENTAL DISABLED CHILDREN by Yusida Fitriyati, Muhammad Zuhdi

“…For this reason, this paper is made with a focus on the study of how the rights and obligations of guardians to the inheritance of mentally disabled children in Indonesia and global cultural relativism?…”
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