Question

To try to understand a culture on its own terms is called __________.

Answer 1

To try to understand a culture on its own terms is called cultural relativism.

Answer 2

To try to understand a culture on its own terms is called cultural relativism.

According this perspective person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture.

It follows that no one moral or ethical systems is really “better” than any other.