If you are not from Africa you are missing a lot of cultural practices

in #airhawk-project6 years ago (edited)

Culture is the form that refers to the large and diverse set of mostly intangible aspect of social life it is primarily composed of the values, belief, system of language , communication and practice that that people share in common and that can be used to define them as a collective, as well as the material object that are common on that group or society.

Culture is important to sociologists because it's plays a significant and important role in the production of social order, which refers to the stability of society based on the collective agreement to rules and norms that allow us to cooperate, function as a society and live together in peace and harmony.

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Culture is one of the most important concept within sociology because sociologists recognize that it's play a crucial role in shaping social order, determining how we make in sense of the world and our place in it and in shaping our everyday actions and experience in society, it is composed of both non material and material things in brief, sociologists define the non material aspect of culture as the values and belief, language , communication and practice that are shared in common by group of people

Different types of culture

. Global culture
. Sub culture
. Multiculturalism
. Popular culture
. High culture
. Cultural diversity

. Global culture

Globalization is the process by which events in one part of the world come to influence what happened else where in the world. They has become inter connected, socially, politically and economically. A glob culture is a key feature of globalization, they emerged due to patterns of migration, trends in international travel and spread of the media exposing to some language the same dominant world companies.

. Sub culture

This is the culture enjoyed by small group within society in the sense it is minority part of majority culture. They have distinct norms and values which make them sub section of the society.

. Multiculturalism

It is depicted to be very similar to the cultural diversity, other definition along multiculturalism with different ethnic groups living a large side of each side.

. Popular culture

It's suggested that is borrows the idea from high culture and popularize it, making it available for masses. There by it is depicted to be a product of media dominated world that is a position force because it brings people different backgrounds together in a common culture.

. High culture

It is linked with the elite, upper class society those families and individuals with ascribed status as polo , lacrosse and leisure pursuits such as hunting and shooting clearly, high culture is associated with small elite society.

. Cultural diversity

Is a concept relating to culturally embedded difference within society, it is the fact that different cultures exist.

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list of the three major ethic group in Nigeria

In an addition to it's dominance as Africa, most popular country Nigeria is blessed with many ethic group but only few of this group are very prominent.

. Hausa
. Yoruba
.Igbo

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Thanks regard @ tegasweet

Reference

http://www.markedbyteachers.com/as-and-a-level/sociology/different-types-of-culture.html
https://naijaquest.com/major-ethnic-groups-in-nigeria-minority/

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