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Jun 15, 2024 · Anthropologist Ruth Benedict's work in Patterns of Culture emphasizes that ethical norms and behaviors are a product of cultural conditioning, and what one society deems ethical, another may...
Jun 26, 2024 · In an era of fascism, racism, and ethnic stereotyping for political purposes, Benedict's theory was controversial because it called for judging each culture only on its own merits and values, and argued that no culture should be forced to conform to the standards or values of another.
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4 days ago · The most common forms of ethical subjectivism are also forms of moral relativism, with moral standards held to be relative to each culture or society, i.e. cultural relativism, or even to every individual.
1 day ago · When this happens, new risks of enslavement and manipulation ensue (§26). Further, the reductive vision of a practical atheism is exported by the rich nations to the poor nations. In Benedict’s words: “This is the damage that super-development causes to authentic development when it is accompanied by moral underdevelopment” (§29).
3 days ago · Certainly Erikson’s work, deriving as it does from the influence of Boas’s followers Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, as well as from his mentor Anna Freud, has little Essentialist flavor and doubtless no conscious intentions of social invidiousness or political dominance.
Jun 15, 2024 · The Ruth Benedict Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic.
6 days ago · Ruth Benedict was an American anthropologist. She was born in New York City, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1909. She entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1919, studying under Franz Boas, receiving her PhD and joining the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she may have shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin ...
