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Culture: Types of Culture Ideal, Real, Material & Non-Material Culture With Examples

Culture refers to the cumulative knowledge, beliefs, values, and objects that are passed down through generations in a group. It includes both material aspects like buildings and non-material aspects like language and beliefs. There are four main types of culture: material culture which consists of physical objects, non-material culture which are abstract concepts, ideal culture which are aspirations, and real culture which is the aspects of culture that are actually practiced in daily life. Examples of material culture include buildings and vehicles, while non-material culture includes language and religion.

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Culture: Types of Culture Ideal, Real, Material & Non-Material Culture With Examples

Culture refers to the cumulative knowledge, beliefs, values, and objects that are passed down through generations in a group. It includes both material aspects like buildings and non-material aspects like language and beliefs. There are four main types of culture: material culture which consists of physical objects, non-material culture which are abstract concepts, ideal culture which are aspirations, and real culture which is the aspects of culture that are actually practiced in daily life. Examples of material culture include buildings and vehicles, while non-material culture includes language and religion.

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Culture

Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience,


beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of
time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material
objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the
course of generations through individual and group striving.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group


of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits,
music and art

Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large


group of people.

Culture is communication, communication is culture

Types of Culture Ideal, Real, Material &


Non-Material Culture with Examples
A culture has four aspects or four types material and non-material
culture and ideal & real culture. Material culture is related to
tangible objects made by man. Buildings, furniture, books are the
products of material culture. Non-material culture is related to the
abstract things like emotions, attitudes, ideas and beliefs which we
feel but cannot verify by observation. Peace, war, co-operation,
marriage and lecture are the examples of non-material culture. A
book is material culture but its words are non-material. Man is a
material but his speech is non-material. Radio is material but its
sound is nonmaterial. It means material culture has its non-material
aspect also.

1.Real Culture
Real culture can be observed in our social life.
We act upon on culture in our social life is real, its part which the
people adopt in their social life is their real one. The whole one is
never real because a part of it remains without practice. How far
we set upon Islam is our real culture. Being a Muslims, Christian
and related to another religion we do not follow Islam, Christianity
etc. fully in our social life. It means the part of religion which we
follow is our real culture.
2.Ideal Culture
The culture which is presented as a pattern or
precedent to the people is called ideal. It is the goal of the society.
It can never be achieved fully because some part of it remains out
of practice. It is explained in textbooks, our leaders’ speeches and
guidance. The part of ideal culture practiced in social life is called
real culture. Islam is our ideal one. We claim to be true Muslims
and this claim is our ideal culture but how far we are Muslims in
practice is our real culture. Both the real and ideal cultures are
related together and different from each other.
3.Material Culture
Material culture consists of man-made
objects such as furniture, automobiles, buildings, dams, bridges,
roads and in fact, the physical matter converted and used by man.
It is closely related with the external, mechanical as well as useful
objects. It includes, technical and material equipment like a
railways engines, publication machines, a locomotive, a radio etc.
It includes our financial institutions, parliaments, insurance
policies etc. and referred to as civilization.
4.Non-Material Culture
The term 'culture' when used in
the ordinary sense, means non-material culture'. This term when
used in the ordinary sense, means non-material. It is something
nonphysical ideas which include values, beliefs, symbols,
organization and institutions etc. Nonmaterial culture includes
words we use, the language we speak, our belief held, values we
cherish and all the ceremonies observed.

Material and Nonmaterial Culture Examples


Material means physical object
(i.e. buildings, vehicles, transportation, clothes, houses and
schools). Non-Material means something you invisible,
untouchable (i.e. education, language, feelings, religion, beliefs,
sports, and feelings)

  Six elements of culture


 Beliefs
 Values
 Norms
 Language
 Roles
 Social collectives. 

There are shared symbols in every society that represent the


elements of culture. These symbols evoke specific emotions and
reactions from people.

Component of culture
1. Communication
 Language

It forms the core all culture. When people share a


considered very flexibility set of symbols or meaning that
makes communication possible.

 Symbols
Symbols form the back bone of symbolic
intraction they concede very complex idea and values
into simple material forms so that the very presence
of the symbols evokes the singnified idea and value

2. Cognitive component
Idea/knowledge/belief

 Idea- are mental


Representation (concepts, categories, metaphor)
used to organize stimulus they are the basit unit out
of which knowledge is constructed and word emerge
 Knowledge
Is the storehouse where we accumulate
representation, information, facts, assumption, etc.
 Value
The value people hold vary to some degree by age,
sex, race, ethnicity, religion, and social class.
 Account
Account are how people use to a common
language to explain justify rationalize excuse or
legitimize our behavior to themselves and to other
3. Behavioral component

 Norms
Norms are rule and expectations by which a
society guides the behavior of its member

Types of norms

1.Mores
They are customary behavior pattern orfolk
which have taken on a moralistic value
2.Laws
Laws are the mores deemed so vital to doming
interest that they become translated into legal
formation that even nonmember of society are
required to obey
4. Material component
Human make objects sometime for
practical reason and some time for artistic one the
form and function of these object is an expression of
culture and cultural defines behavior often depend on
the presence of specific object we call such object
material culture.

Pakistani culture
1.Pakistan's culture is enrich in traditions and
represents history of this region. Pakistani people and
society is unique in its way of life, thoughts and
morals. The inhabitants of each province have diverse
cultural values which make them different from other
groups of the society

2.Family bonds are strong in Pakistan


Family comes first in Pakistan due to religious,
cultural, economic and societal values. Pakistani
society is not led by individualism but rather by
collectivism, where family and other relationships
stand strong.

3. Pakistanis love listening to – and making – music


Diverse culture has exposed Pakistani musicians to
many different poetic forms and styles, along with
languages and literature. Qawwali and Ghazal are the
nation’s auditory treasures. Building on that, Pakistani
TV shows, like Coke Studio, have amassed millions of
fans internationally and locally, from non-Pakistanis
to non-Urdu speakers.

4.pakistanis are hospitality in nature

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