{"id":20935,"date":"2023-05-27T13:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/human-rights-universalists-vs-cultural-relativists-after-reading-chapter-13-what-is-your-view-are-you-more-of-a-cultural-relativist-or-universalist-on-the-issue-of-whether-psychotherapy-de\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:17:28","slug":"human-rights-universalists-vs-cultural-relativists-after-reading-chapter-13-what-is-your-view-are-you-more-of-a-cultural-relativist-or-universalist-on-the-issue-of-whether-psychotherapy-de","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/human-rights-universalists-vs-cultural-relativists-after-reading-chapter-13-what-is-your-view-are-you-more-of-a-cultural-relativist-or-universalist-on-the-issue-of-whether-psychotherapy-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights: Universalists vs. Cultural Relativists after reading chapter 13, what is your view\u2014are you more of a cultural relativist or universalist on the issue of whether psychotherapy, developed in a Western European context.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Short Paper #4: Human Rights: Universalists vs. Cultural
\nRelativists<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Can
\nand should human rights be universal? Whose universe? This line of questioning
\nis behind many human rights controversies. Broadly, there are two positions:<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \u201cUniversalists\u201d
    \n believe that the same human rights should apply to everyone, regardless of
    \n their culture or background.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. \u201cCultural
    \n relativists\u201d believe human rights should take account of cultural
    \n differences.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Cultural
    \nrelativism states that values are defined by local culture as opposed to global
    \nideology. For example, cultural relativists argue that Western countries
    \ndeveloped human rights based on Western morality. Therefore, they should not be
    \nimposed on non-Western societies with different histories, cultures, and levels
    \nof development. Cultural relativism is the view that moral or ethical systems,
    \nwhich vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid, and no one system is
    \nreally \u201cbetter\u201d than any other. This is based on the idea that there is no
    \nultimate standard of good <\/i>or evil<\/i>, so every
    \njudgment about right <\/i>and wrong <\/i>is a product
    \nof society. Therefore, any opinion on morality or ethics is subject to the
    \ncultural perspective of each person. Ultimately, this means that no moral or
    \nethical system can be considered the \u201cbest\u201d or \u201cworst,\u201d and no particular moral
    \nor ethical position can be considered \u201cright\u201d or \u201cwrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    Universalists
    \nargue that ideals like liberty and security belong to all of us. They are
    \ncritical of cultural relativist arguments, which they see as an attempt to
    \njustify the oppression of minorities or defend harmful cultural practices.
    \nCultural relativism has been criticized as a means for nations to pick and
    \nchoose which rights they are willing to uphold. So, there is a tension between
    \nhuman rights as entirely universal and not subject to modifications due to
    \nculture, on the one hand, versus human rights as affected by the cultural
    \ndemands of specific contexts, on the other.<\/span><\/p>\n

    This
    \ntension (perhaps \u201ccollision\u201d) between the idea of \u201cuniversal human rights\u201d as
    \nobjective truth and the cultural relativism of diverse communities throughout
    \nthe world brings up all sorts of complicated arguments about imperialism <\/span><\/a>and colonialism<\/span><\/a>, objective versus subjective truths<\/span><\/a>, ethnocentrism<\/span><\/a>, and xenophobia<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Read Human Rights: Universalism vs.
      \n Cultural Relativism\u2014A Brief Thought<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Watch Universalism vs. Relativism: Human Rights<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Take the Worldview Questionnaire<\/span><\/a>.
      \n At the end of the questionnaire, the Institute for Cultural Evolution will
      \n ask for your name and email address. Once you complete that information,
      \n they will send you your confidential results.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      In a
      \n500-word paper using       APA-style in-text citations<\/span><\/a>,
      \n<\/span><\/b>after reading chapter 13<\/span><\/b>, what is
      \nyour view\u2014are you more of a cultural relativist or universalist on the issue of
      \nwhether psychotherapy, developed in a Western European context, can be exported
      \nsuccessfully to other diverse cultures? Ask at least one other student what
      \ntheir view is and discuss.?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

      REQUIREMENTS
      \nFOR SHORT PAPERS<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

        \n
      1. ALL short
        \n papers must meet the 500-word requirement.<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. ALL short
        \n papers follow the APA writing style, particularly:<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Headings<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. Parenthetical and Narrative
        \n In-Text Citations<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. References<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
      6. Check for
        \n plagiarism using         Quetext<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
      7. Use Citefast<\/span><\/a> to create your references
        \n list but double-check that your referenced sources are correctly formatted<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

        CONCLUSIONIn
        \nthis chapter, we have discussed the important role culture plays in attempting
        \nto help people with mental disorders improve their lives. The material in this
        \nchapter is not only relevant on its own, but is informed by material in the
        \nentire book, showing the pervasive influence of culture on all aspects of our
        \npsychological composition. It is only within this larger perspective of the
        \ninfluence of culture that we can begin to truly grasp and appreciate the
        \ndifficulties and complexities of diagnosing and treating psychological
        \ndisorders in a diverse world.<\/span><\/p>\n

        The
        \ndifficulties presented, however, should be viewed as challenges, not obstacles.
        \nThrough the study of culture, psychopathology, assessment, and psychotherapy,
        \nwe are afforded the chance to expand our theoretical and conceptual horizons
        \nregarding abnor-mality and treatment, and to help our treatment systems evolve
        \ninto bigger and better systems effectively serving larger and larger groups of
        \npeople. We are currently engaged in the search for principles and knowledge
        \nthat will help us achieve those goals.Continued cross-cultural research on
        \nclinical issues\u2014such as defining and assess-ing abnormality and designing
        \ntreatment approaches that effectively mobilize heal-ing forces within
        \nclients\u2014is a must. But research on these major issues of definition,
        \nassessment, and treatment should proceed cautiously and systematically. Future
        \nresearch will need to explore the efficacy of different treatment approaches
        \nthat address both etic and emic concerns, blending traditional and
        \nculture-specific meth-ods in an overall, comprehensive fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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        Short Paper #4: Human Rights: Universalists vs. Cultural Relativists   Can and should human rights be universal? Whose universe? This line of questioning is behind many human rights controversies. Broadly, there are two positions: \u201cUniversalists\u201d believe that the same human rights should apply to everyone, regardless of their culture or background. \u201cCultural relativists\u201d believe human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=20935"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=20935"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=20935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}