Expanded Definition

Expanded Definition: Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual person's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.
Cultural relativism can be difficult to maintain when we're confronted with cultures whose practices or beliefs conflict with our own. For example, in France, headscarves worn by many Islamic women have been banned. To the French, banning headscarves is important because it helps maintain a secular society and gender equality, but the headscarves have a sense of religion to those who wear them. The context behind the headscarves must be taken into perspective, and although many do not approve you must accept the culture of others.We must interpret the behavior of different cultures as well as the light of their motives, habits and values if we are to understand them.
Social Institution
As established by Henslin, social institutions are the organized, usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs. (Henslin 90)

Expanded Definition: Established set of norms and subsystems that support each society's survival. They decrease chaos and increase structure in the economy, government, family, religious and
It describes how we take in new information and then incorporate that into our everyday existing knowledge. Assimilation is slow and gradual process. It takes some time before individuals or groups once dissimilar become similar. For instance, the American Indians adopted cultural elements of the Whites with whom they came in contact; but the whites also appropriated certain cultural traits from the Indians. Therefore, assimilation has two parts or stages one is the suppression of the parent culture, the other is the acquisition of the new culture and its