Cultural Relativism Defined 2. The History of Cultural Relativism 1. William Graham Sumner 2. Franz Boas C. Cultural Relativism as a Moral Philosophy 1. Claims of Cultural Relativism a.
Different societies have different moral codes.
There are no objective standard to judge one societies moral codes over another's. Our own society's moral code has no special status. There are no moral truths or universals with transcend culture and time. Moral code determines what is right within a society. It is ethnocentric and arrogance to judge the conduct of other cultures 2.