NADIA IMRAN

ROLL NO 68
BS GENDER STUDIES
2nd SEMESTER (REPLICA)
ASSIGHMENT
SOCIO-CULTURE ASPECTS OF
GENDER
SUBMIT TO: MISS NUDRAT KAMAL
 SUMMARY
IDEAL CULTURE
Ideal culture is a concept within individual perceptions of culture
and is comprised of the norms, values, and ethics that a culture claims to profess. It is the
idealistic, non-realistic perception of a culture and its most important ideals.

REAL CULTURE
The standards and values a society actually has, instead of pretends or
tries to have. Real culture includes the values and norms that are actually followed by a culture.
it involves an adaptable value system that is used mostly as a set of guidelines for preferred
behavior.

SUBCULTURE
A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiate itself
from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.
Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding cultural, political, and sexual matters.

COUNTER CULTURE
A counter culture is a subculture whose values and norms of
behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream
culture mores. A counterculture movement express the ethos and aspiration of a specific
population during a well-defined era.

CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Cultural relativism is the idea that a person’s beliefs, values, and
practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture, rather than be judged against
the criteria of another. Cultural relativism involves specific epistemological and methodological
claims.

CULTURAL ETHOCENTRISM
Ethocentrism is used in social sciences and anthropology
to describe the act of judging another culture and believing that the values and standards of one’s
own culture are superior especially with regard to language, behavior, customs, and religion.