What Is the Difference Between Descriptive Cultural Relativism and Normative

question 63

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between descriptive cultural relativism and normative cultural relativism?

• A) Normative cultural relativism says that what is morally right or wrong for a person depends on the moral beliefs of that person's culture, whereas descriptive cultural relativism says that most people in a particular culture believe in normative cultural relativism.
• B) Normative cultural relativism says that different cultures accept different moral beliefs, whereas descriptive cultural relativism says that the moral beliefs of a culture determine what is morally right or wrong for members of that culture.
• C) Descriptive cultural relativism says that different cultures accept different moral beliefs, whereas normative cultural relativism says that the moral beliefs of a culture determine what is morally right or wrong for members of that culture.
• D) Descriptive cultural relativism says that what is morally right or wrong for a person depends on the moral beliefs of that person's culture, whereas normative cultural relativism says that most people in a particular culture believe in descriptive cultural relativism.

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