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Assignment Three
Catherine Roberts
6/10/2019
Cultural relevance equates to interactivity with the values and context of a community
or society as a whole and including all cultures of that society or community. Cultural relevance is basis of morality in culture. This is often based in theory. A major theory of cultural relevance is personalty theory. A personality theory is an attempt at explaining behavior, including how various types of behavior arise in culture and which patterns can be gauged and observed in culture. Most, though not all, cultural relevance theories will fall into one of four types: psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait, and social cognitive. I would like to go deeper into the humanistic personality theory. This theory does have huge cultural relevance. Maslow’s humanistic theory of personality states that people achieve their full potential by going from basic needs to self-actualization. And this extends to culture also. According to cultural humanistic theory, the realizing of an indivdual’s full potential; can include creative expression, quest for spiritual enlightenment, pursuit of knowledge, or the desire to give to society culturally. Most self-actualizers had a great sense of awareness, continuing a near-constant enjoyment and awe of life. They actively engaged in activities that would bring about this feeling of unity and meaningfulness. Maslow’s ideas have been criticized for not having scientific rigor. As with all first psychological
studies, questions have been raised about the lack of empirical evidence used in his research. Due to the subjective nature of the cultural study, the holistic approach allows for a great deal of cultural variation but does not identify enough constant variables in order to be researched with true accuracy. Cultural psychologists also worry that such an severe focus on the subjective experience of the individual does little to explain or appreciate the impact of society on personality development. Furthermore, the hierarchy of needs has been implicated of cultural bias, mainly reflecting Western values and ideologies. Critics suggest that this concept is considered relative to each culture and society and cannot be universally applied. I do believe cultural relevance is completely useful, partially, or not useful at all as a theory of morality. I feels every action has a consequence. Similar to cultural relevancists, cultural consequentialists believe that the level of good from that consequence presets the level of good of the action. The goal is to figure out ethically who these actions are good for and which actions and decisions are important morally to the individual. Utilitarianism, what is morally good, plays a large role in figuring out this
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by achieving a greater good for everyone versus an individual greater good. Determining what to do is the main point of moral assessments of acts. Consequentialism has three components to the theory; what makes acts morally bad, procedure to make moral decisions, and the conditions that moral sanctions such as guilt and praise are appropriate.
As an example, even if punishment of a criminal causes pain, a cultural consequentialist can hold that a world with both the crime and the punishment is better than a world with the crime but not the punishment, perhaps because the former contains more justice. Similarly, a cultural society might seem better when people do not get pleasures that they do not deserve. Cases like these make some cultural consequentialists to deny that cultural moral rightness is any function of the values of particular effects of acts. Instead, they compare the entire cultural society (or total set of cultural consequences) that results from an action with the entire cultural society that results from not doing that action. If the former is better, then the action is morally correct culturally. This all relates to contributes to cultural relevance.
Sources
1. Cahn, Steven M. (2016).Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology,(4th ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford
University Press. ISBN-13: 97801902736997
2. http://www.youthoutside.org/programs/cultural-relevancy-series
3. www.colorincolorado.org/article/culturally-relevant-books-ell-classroom