Social Structure and Classes of Pakistan

1. “SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF PAKISTAN”
PAKISTAN STUDIES
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2. Index
 Introduction of social structure
 Social structure of Pakistan
 Social structure
 Social class
 Types of social class
 Upper social class
 Middle social class
 Lower social class
 Charatertics of classes
 Conclusion
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4. SOCIAL CLASS
 A social class is a homogenous
group of people in society formed on
the basis of
 Education
 Occupation
 Income
 Place of residence
 And who have similar social values
similar interest in life.
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5. TYPES OF SOCIAL CLASSESS
 The social classes of Pakistan:
 Upper social class
 Middle social class
 Working social class
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6. Upper social class
 High level of income
 High paying profession
 Living in most cleanest place of country
 Their size is 2% of total society
 Approx. 3.7 million they have 60%-70%
of money of country
 Actually they are;
 High leadership
 Big business man
 Top management of country
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7. Middle social class
 Their income is not so high
 They are hard workers for their goals
 Their level of wishes is not so much top
class
 Their population is 53% of total
population
 They are actually
 They are small to medium size
business man
 Middle management
 Low ranking govt. officer.
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8. Working social class
 They are not much educated
 They are not in accusative profession
 Their income is low
 They build their homes hardly having 2
rooms
 Their size is 20% of out of total population
 They are actually
 They are very small size shop owner. Skilled
,semi skilled and unskilled
 Low grade govt. staff(peons, drivers)
 Poor former
 Political worker
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9. Characteristics of rich
 They are few and far between in any
society
 They exploit poor
 They have common notion to make
profit at the expense of teeming poor.
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10. Characteristics of middle class
 Social mobility is found highest in
this class.
 They live comfortably than poor
class, but are financially lower than
upper class.
 They all are employees (proletariats)
 They are being exploited.
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11. Characteristics of poor
 Social mobility is the lowest in them.
 Rate of deviance is high in them.
 They are most likely to be
drug/narcotics addicted.
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12. Conclusion
 The conclusion of study is that the poor people copy the middle class doing
things, they leave their culture
 They have no idea how they are leaving their own culture
 They exploit their values and belief
 They can't afford branded clothes but they try to wear
 This study show every one work hard to better their conditions
 There is no destination between their needs and wants.
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