Sociology Learners

The Elements of Culture

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Culture is a way of life spend by a specific group of people&period; Every culture is amalgamation of the following elements&comma; norms&comma; values&comma; beliefs and language&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Language<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">To live together in a group the most important part is communication amongst the individuals of the group&period; For the prime purpose of communication every group has its own language&period; Language contains set of symbols&comma; gestures and sounds which vary in different culture&period; Learning language is of vital importance for an individual to become a part of society&comma; indeed it is the first and fundamental thing that a child learn&period; Moreover&comma; it is important for a child to learn language of a given culture to acquire social skills&period; A child learn social skills via interacting with the members of society and language is the fundamental element for interaction&period; If an individual wants to become a part of new group or society he has have to learn the language of that group to interact with the other members of group&period; For example if a person want to join a law firm&comma; first he has to get a law degree&comma; because lawyers have their own terminologies and sentence structure&comma; which could not be understood without having a law degree&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Norms<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Norms are another element of culture&period; Social norms are the expectations of a culture from an individual to how to behave in a society in a specific situation&period; For example if there is a line in fast food restaurant&comma; for joining the line you have to stand behind the last person in the line&comma; if you barge in middle or in front it will be against the norms&period; Furthermore&comma; norms are divided in to two components&comma; mores and folkways&period; Folkways are the general standard behaviors followed by&comma; individuals in a group&period; For example way of dressing&comma; way of greeting guests and the way of preparing food&period; Mores are the ethical and moral behaviors followed by individuals in a group&period; For example intrusion in someone home is unethical&comma; steeling is not a moral behavior and in some cultures committing adultery is considered immoral behavior&period; Therefore&comma; not following mores leads to punishment in a society&comma; whereas&comma; there is not any strict restriction on following folkways&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Beliefs<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Beliefs are the collectively shared ideas of individual in a society about what is true&period; Shared ideas bind individual with one another in a society&period; Most of norms and values of a given culture originate from beliefs&period; For example&comma; in a country where people belief in higher power or God may find atheism intolerable&period; &NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Values<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Values are deeply intervened with beliefs&period; Values are the ideal principles or abstract standards of a culture&period; Values determine&comma; right and wrong&comma; morally correct and morally incorrect and what is good and what is bad&period; Values might lead to cultural cohesion and can also become source of conflict between two cultures&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;--CusAds0-->&NewLine;<div style&equals;"font-size&colon; 0px&semi; height&colon; 0px&semi; line-height&colon; 0px&semi; margin&colon; 0&semi; padding&colon; 0&semi; clear&colon; both&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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