This document defines culture and discusses various aspects of culture including its characteristics, functions, features of Pakistani culture, elements of culture such as symbols, language, values, beliefs, norms, folkways, mores, and laws. It also discusses types of culture including material, non-material, ideal, and real culture. Finally, it covers topics like cultural diversity in Pakistan, subculture, multiculturalism, counterculture, cultural change, ethnocentrism, and the emergence of a global culture.
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Culture is way of life that includes Laws, believes, Norms, habits, Knowledge that human adopted or collected from their forefather to live in society. Every community have different culture their Laws their Traditions are also differ.
Religion is a social institution that answers questions and explains the seemingly inexplicable. Religion provides explanations for why things happen and demystifies the ideas of birth and death. Religions based on the belief in a single deity are monotheistic. Those that encompass many deities arepolytheistic.
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Culture is way of life that includes Laws, believes, Norms, habits, Knowledge that human adopted or collected from their forefather to live in society. Every community have different culture their Laws their Traditions are also differ.
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2. DEFINITION OF CULTURE
Culture is a complex whole which
includes, Knowledge, Belief, Art,
Morals, Law, Customs and any
other capabilities and habits
acquired by man as a member of
society (Edward B. Tylor).
3. CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
Culture is learnt
Culture is social
Culture is shared
Culture is transmissive
Culture is continuous and cumulative
Culture is consistent and integrated
Culture is dynamic and adaptive
Culture is gratifying
Culture is Dynamic
Culture is super organic and ideational
4. FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE
Culture is the treasury of knowledge
Culture defines situations
Culture defines attitudes, values and goals
Culture decides career
Culture provides behavior pattern
Culture molds personality
5. SALIENT FEATURES OF PAKISTANI
CULTURE
Religious uniformity
Language (Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pushto, Baluchi,
Sariki).
Mixed culture
Islamic literature and poetry is dominant
Patriarchal structure
Religious festivals (Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Azha, 12 Rabi-ul-AWal)
8. SYMBOL
A symbol is anything that carries a particular meaning
recognized by people who share a culture. There is a
great importance of symbols for the human being.
Every society construct its symbols for the well
functionality of the society. The individuals start to
learn the different symbols at the time of the birth
and continue till death. Actually, symbols play an
important role in the identity construction and
develop the meaning of right and wrong. It is
probability that some symbols are recognized good in
one culture and bad in other culture. For example,
the Asians like veil but European don’t like this one.
9. LANGUAGE
The key to the world of culture, is a symbols that
allows people to communicate with one another.
Cultural transmission the process by
which one generation passes culture to
the next.
It is estimated that there are 7000 languages in the
world. 1.3 billion people speaks Chinese, English is the
second largest spoken language in the world.
10. VALUES
Culturally standards
that people use to
decide what is
desirable, good and
beautiful and that serve
as broad guidelines for
social living. People
who share a culture use
values to make choices
about how to live.
Values are broad principles that
support beliefs, specific
thoughts or ideas that people
hold to he true. In other words,
values are abstract standards of
goodness, and beliefs are
particular matters that
individuals consider true or
false. Examples of Pakistani
culture; patriarchy, respect of
elders and teachers etc.
11. BELIEFS
Beliefs in empirical terms are neither true nor
false. Tested empirical knowledge and untestable
beliefs are “elements ” of culture. Because, they
are often mixed together in the same concrete
acts. Only through an intellectual analysis the
different elements could be separated from one
another. For example, the missionary says a silent
prayer and at the same time administers modern
medical tests to the patient.
12. SOCIAL NORMS
Social Norms are the standard pattern
behavior.
Norms are a fundamental concept in the social
sciences.
They are most commonly defined as rules or
expectations that are socially enforced.
Norms may be prescriptive (encouraging positive behavior;
for example, “be honest” or proscriptive (discouraging negative
behavior; for example, “do not cheat”).
13. FOLK WAYS
Folkways – these
are everyday
habits; customs,
traditions and
conventions
people obey
without giving
much thought to
the matter.
Some examples common
in western societies
include, standing in line,
holding the door for
someone, greeting
fellow passengers at a
bus stop (perhaps varies
from city to city), waiting
for fellow diners food to
arrive before you start
eating.
14. MORES
Mores are often
dictated by a society's
values, ethics, and
sometimes religious
influences.
Some mores
examples include: It is not
considered acceptable or
mainstream to abuse drugs,
particularly those such as
heroine and cocaine. It is
not considered acceptable to
drive at 90 mph in a
residential area.
15. LAWS
Laws- these are formalized norms enacted by
people vested with legitimate authority. The
person who breach the Law is called criminal.
18. MATERIAL CULTURE
1. Tangible and observable
objects
2. Material culture consists of man-made objects
such as tools, implements, furniture, automobiles,
buildings, dams, roads, bridges, and in fact, the
physical substance which has been changed and
used by man. It is concerned with the external,
mechanical and utilitarian objects. For example,
Schools, Banks, Currency system etc.
19. NON- MATERIAL CULTURE
Non tangible and
non-observable
objects
Non-material culture consists of the words the
people use or the language they speak, the belief
they hold, values and virtues they cherish, habits
they follow, rituals and practices that they do and
the ceremonies they observed. It also includes
our customs and tastes, attitudes and outlooks.
20. IDEAL CULTURE
The culture that
people want to
follow and
idealize in daily
routine of life.
Ideal culture includes the
formally approved
folkways and norms which
people are a supposed to
follow or how we should
behave. For example,
follow the Islamic Beliefs
in practice and look to
neighbor rights are basic
principles of Islam.
21. REAL CULTURE
Real culture refers to
the reality of the
people. For example,
throughout the world
more than 196
countries signed
“CEDAW” but in reality
its application is not
practice in majority of
the signed countries.
Real culture means the
norms and values a
society adheres to in
practices or how we
actually heave. Such a
gap is visible at the
level of individual
behavior.
22. DIVERSITY
The concept of diversity encompasses
acceptance and respect
It means understanding that each individual is unique
Recognizing our individual differences.
These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity,
gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status,
age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political
beliefs, or other ideologies
24. Cultural Diversity in Pakistan
Pakistan is a
country with
diverse social,
ethnic,
linguistic and
cultural
circumstances.
The country came
into existence after
division of British
Indian colony in 1947
on the basis of
Islamic identity of
people living in this
region but different
social and ethnic
groups have
maintained their
distinct character.
26. TYPES OF DIVERSITY IN THE WORK
PLACE
Education
Ethnicity
Language
Religion
Disability
27. SUBCULTURE
The term subculture refer to cultural patterns that set apart
some segments of a society’s population.
A segment of society which shares a distinctive pattern of
mores, folkways and values which differ from the pattern of
larger society. Such groups are may have their values, norms
and symbols but they largely blend into mainstream society.
Example: In Pakistan there are different subculture
like Punjabi, Sindhi, Sariki, Balochi, Pushto etc.
28. MULTICULTURALISM
Multiculturalism is a perspective recognizing the
cultural diversity and take them in to account
accordingly. Pakistan is a diverse country in
which different subculture have their own
norms and values but as a whole it is called
Pakistani society. The Government of Pakistan
also take care the provincial differences and give
them freedom to enjoy their traits at some
extent.
29. COUNTER CULTURE
A subculture that rejects societal norms
and values and seeks alternative
lifestyles (Yinger, 1960).
Example: In Pakistan the Taliban constituted
countercultures as they reject the Government of
Pakistan rite and intended to impose their own rules and
regulations within the state. These Militant groups have
become counterculture in Pakistan.
30. CULTURAL CHANGE
Some elements of cultural change faster than
others. William Ogburn (1964) observed that
technology moves quickly, generating new
element of material culture (things) faster
than nonmaterial culture (ideas) can keep up
with them. Ogburn called this inconsistency
cultural lag, the fact that some cultural
elements change more quickly than others,
disrupting a cultural system.
32. Cultural Lag
The period of maladjustment during which
the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to the
new material conditions. We will be willing to
use technological innovations from other
cultures (material culture) that will make our
lives easier, but we will be reluctant to adopt
the ideologies of that culture that will change
our way of seeing the world, for example
democracy in Pakistan.
33. ETHNOCENTRISM
Tendency of each group take for
granted the superiority of its own
culture (Horton & Hunt, 1984).
Ethnocentrism is a term coined by William
Graham Sumner, is the belief that you consider your
culture superior as compared to others. This leads to
making incorrect assumptions about others behavior
based on your own norms, values, and beliefs.
35. XENOCENTRISM
The opposite of ethnocentrism is
xenocentrism which means preferring ideas
and things from other cultures over ideas
and things from your own culture. For
example, Pakistani always consider
American’s values superior, Japani’s
products better, Korean auto technology
durable etc.
37. A GLOBAL CULTURE
•The global economy
•Global
communications
•Global migration
Societies now
have more
contact with
one another
than ever
before, thanks
to the flow of
goods,
information and
people.