Saturday, January 14, 2012

Components of culture.

Dominant culture
  • The dominant culture in a society refers to the established language, religion, values, rituals, and social customs.
  • By its  dominance can control the social institutions such as communication, educational institutions, artistic expression, law, political process and business.
  • In multicultural society, various cultures are celebrated and respected equally.
    
Sub culture.
  • Sub culture is a group of people with a culture, which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong.
  • Sub culture is a segment of society that shares a   special patterns of mores ,folk ways, values that differs from the large society.
  • In a sens   a sub culture can be   though  of as a culture excisting   withing a larger, dominant culture.
Counter  culture.
  • When a sub culture conspicuousty and deliberately oppose certain aspects of the larger culture it is known as a counter culture.
  • Which  means a culture totally different from the larger culture in many aspects.
  • Counter culture typically thrive among the young.
  • Eg: Hippies dropped out of main stream social institution.
        

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