CULTURE AND ITS TYPES

By : Asma (05 )
Hira (06 )
6th semester ,3rd year
Dated :8 September 2021
Objectives
 Define Culture

 Discuss Characteristics Of Culture

 Define Elements Of Culture

 Discuss Types Of Culture

Culture
 Culture is a very broad that includes laws , beliefs , norms, habits,
knowledge that human adopt or collect from their forefather to
live in society.

 Every community have different culture , their laws traditions are

also differ.
Characteristics of culture
 Some of the characteristics of culture are

 Culture is learned

 Culture is shared

 Culture is transmitted

 Culture is changing

 Culture is identity
Characteristics of culture

1. Culture is learned:
 It means wherever we learned from society

 Culture learnt something e.g : wearing cloths , dancing etc

2. Culture is share:
 All traits , attitudes, ideas, knowledge, and material objects is
shared by members of society
Characteristics of culture

3. Culture is transmitted:
 All the traits and material objects are transmitted to the member
of society from their forefather. We lear new fashion, how to
behave in a particular social situation, how to interact with
society, how to move with society.
Characteristics of culture

4. Culture is changing:
 Culture is not remain static but changing. It is changing in every
society, but different speed and causes. It constantly goes to
change and adopts itself to the environment.
Characteristics of culture

5. Culture is identity:
 Culture gives us identity if anyone is Muslim or Hindu or belongs
to another religion that is identity of culture anyone belongs from
Islamabad, Quetta, Karachi etc, that is the identity.
Elements of culture
 Customs  Language
 Symbols  Arts and literature
 Traditions  Forms of government
 Religion  Economic systems
Types of culture
 Material culture
 Non material culture
Material culture
 From material culture we understand material and physical objects
 The touchable things that we are touch are called material
 E.g: house , road , table etc
 The decoration of houses, cloths are also material whatever we wear.
These all things are material culture and these products are human
efforts to control his environment and make his life comfortable and
safe.
Non-material culture
 In Non-material we include non-touchable things or that we can feel.

 It is also called non-physical object.

 For example: Religion, art, ideas, values system, attitude and

 If anyone is Muslim that his culture because in this culture Males are
offer their prayer in mosque(Masjid) but females are not allow to offer
their prayer in masjid they offer their offer their prayer in houses that is
the Non-Material culture.