Culture Sociology

Culture is defined in many ways, but it derives from the word culminate from the 1900’s. Cultures are the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. Learned behavior and accumulated behavior are a few of the different characteristics of culture. Cultures also share similar race and ethnicity. Learned behavior includes social behaviors in a large or small group, work ethics, spousal interaction, and treatment of family and friends. Learned behavior determines actions and reactions to situations and people. Accumulated behavior is the time it takes for a behavior to be learned through social contact. Culture refers to the accumulated beliefs, attitudes, value system, religion, and work ethics that we accrue over time through social interaction. A good example would be our very own Army values that we have lived by for many years.

Someone’s cultural characteristics show the way a person within a society may act and react to a situation. A culture will also have a common religious background and belief. Languages, communication, and social interaction will play a large part in how a culture functions. Stability within a culture refers to the consistency of how people within the culture adhere to beliefs. Cultures are often stable, yet they adapt to changes often such as leadership changes, religion, environment, economics, education, and technology. The beliefs in a culture are often comprised from the religion, values, ethics, morals and social interactions in the surrounding area. Jordan shares many cultural characteristics common to the other countries surrounding it in the Middle Eastern region such as belief in Islam, use of the Arabic language, connect...

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...vy acts as a coast guard and the king is the commander in chief of the armed forces.

There is not much resistance within the government or from neighboring counties except for Israel, and their many attempts to destroy Jordan for its land and recourses. During the Iran and Iraq war in 1980-1988 Jordan sided with Iraq just to help stop Iran’s revolutionary movement. Jordan has shared responsibility in securing the Middle East with Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states by supporting them with personnel in return for money and help with commodities and services. Jordan strives to be a peaceful country surrounded by worn torn countries that are completely un-united who want to govern their own territory and surrounding areas in the pursuit of ultimate power. The United States will profit by staying allies with Jordan and keeping a watchful eye on its neighbors.