Culture and it's type

1. CULTURE
BY
SYED FARID ULLAH SHAH

2. DEFINATION OF CULTURE
• Culture has been interpreted variously as a form of social and
corporate life, or expression of the highest intellectual life or simply as
an instrument for fulfilling the material requirements.
• A culture is the way of life of population, all their ways of doing things,
all the kinds of behavior they have learned and transmitted to
successive generations to add. It is expressed in the ways people
communicate, in the way they perceive and exploit their resources.
Most important, in the way, they organize that part of the earth that is
theirs.
• Culture may be defined as the way of life of any society. Culture is the
continually changing patterns of learned behavior and the product of
learned behavior which are shared by and transmitted among the
members of society.
• Thus, culture, more precisely, may be defined as a social order in all its
totality. This includes traditions, history, customs, manners, language,
dress and other social traits as grow under certain geo-physical
environment.

3. Types of Culture
Culture is the way of life that relates the kind of behavior
a person who learnt from his generation.
• Different social scientists have proposed the following
types of culture;
• Material Culture
• Non-material Culture
• Sub-Culture
• Counter Culture
• Ideal Culture
• Real Culture

4. Material Culture:
• Material culture has physical appearance.
• It has both aspects as visible and tangible,
because it is manmade, manufactured as
furniture, building, roads or things that we
used in our daily life.
• This type of culture can modify easily
according to the need of society.

5. Non-Material Culture:
• When we use the tem culture in general way it
means we are discussing about the non-material
culture.
• This type is not physically visible or tangible
quality but we can observe it in the life pattern of
society as our belief, behavior, rules, values and
symbols.
• The language of any society, pattern of
ceremonies observed comes in non-material
culture.

6. Sub-Culture:
• In one society there is number of regional
classes representing their respective ways of
life which are different from one another and
from the whole culture.
• The culture of these classes of people within
the general culture of the whole society is
called sub-culture.

7. Counter Cultures
• A counterculture or life styles of those people
who reject and oppose the main dominate values
and customs of the society
• For example, young generation opposed the
values and customs of old generation.
• In this type a group of people whose norms,
values and behavior has clash and directly
oppose the dominate culture of the society.
• This culture does not fit with the mainstream
culture.

8. Ideal Culture
• Ideal culture known as the goal of any society. Ideal
culture
refers to that cultural pattern which is set as a standard
having formal appreciation by the society.
• When we speak of culture norms, we are usually
speaking of the ideal culture. Cleanliness, honesty,
truth are the examples of ideal culture.
• Keep the society clean, it is the ideal culture value.
Ideal culture is not fully observed for example, it is
ideal culture that everyone is equal before the law but
in practically the minority groups are less equal then
the members of the dominant majority.
• The values and norms of our societies come in ideal
culture.

9. Real Culture
• Real culture refers to those culture patterns
which people infect follow in their daily life.
• For example cleanliness is the ideal culture but
people throw garbage in their surrounding this is
real culture.
• Islam teaches us the rights of women in property
but in practices when we ignored this right of
women this practice is known as our real culture.
• Real culture includes the values and norms that
are actually followed by people.