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SOCIAL TERM: Σχετικισμός / Relativism
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): Whitaker distinguishes three different kinds of relativism: a) Conventional cultural relativism is a combination of two notions: first, that insofar as there are behavioural differences between various populations of people, these differences are the result of cultural (sometimes societal) variation rather than anything else; and, second, that such differences as do exist are deserving of respect and understanding in their own terms. b) Ethical relativism is the notion that the business of making universal, cross-cultural, ethical judgements is both incoherent and unfair because moral values are a product of each culture’s unique developmental history, and can, thus, only be judged in relation to that history. c) Εpistemological relativism, sometimes called “cognitive” relativism, is often defined, by its critics, as the assertion that systems of knowledge possessed by different cultures are “incommensurable” (i.e. not comparable, not translatable, utterly alien, etc.), and that people in different cultures, therefore, are believed by epistemological relativists to live in different, equally “true”, cognitive “worlds” (Whitaker, 2002,pp.721-726).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria
REFERENCE:
σσ.721-726
SOCIAL TERM: Αντιπροσωπευτικό δείγμα / Representative sample
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 4
TERM TYPE: Methodological
SOCIAL TERM: Αντιπροσωπευτικότητα / Representativeness
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 2
TERM TYPE: Methodological
SOCIAL TERM: Ποσοστό απόκρισης / Response rate
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Methodological
SOCIAL TERM: Μύθος / Myth
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 19
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): According to Structuralists, myth is a means of reaching unconscious categories” (Lévi- Strauss, 1976,pp.172–3).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria
DEFINITION COMMENTS: Weiner (2002,p. 585)... agrees, as did Lévi-Strauss, with Richard Wagner, who thought that music and myth have the power to convey messages that ordinary language cannot. -Weiner, J. “Myth and mythology” in Barnard A. & Spencer J., 1996, Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology, Reprint 2002. London & New York: Routledge, σ. 585.
REFERENCE:
σσ.172-3
DEFINITION (2): Hugh-Jones writes: “Barasana myths describe the establishment of a differentiated cosmos from an undifferentiated life-principle, and describe the establishment of order from chaos (1979,p.139).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Deligiannidou Maria
REFERENCE:
σ.139

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