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Culture  Culture represents the beliefs, practices and artifact of a group. Almost every human behavior, from shopping to marriage to expressions of feelings, is learned.  Material culture & Nonmaterial culture Material culture refers to the objects or belongings of a group of people. Metro passes and bus tokens are part of material culture, as are automobiles, stores, and the physical structures where people worship. Nonmaterial culture, in contrast, consists of the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society. Material and nonmaterial aspects of culture are linked, and physical objects often symbolize cultural ideas. Clothing, hairstyles, and jewelry are part of material culture, but the appropriateness of wearing certain clothing for specific events reflects nonmaterial culture Cultural universal Cultural universals are patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies. One example of a cultural universal is the family unit: every human society recognizes a fam...

 WHAT IS INFORMAL SECTOR  Workers in the formal sector are engaged in factories, commercial and service establishments and their working conditions, wages and social security measures are legally protected. Moreover, a range of labour laws, guaranteeing permanency of employment and provision for retirement benefits, protect their jobs. Workers who are not in the formal sector are in the informal sector. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR  In 1970, J. Keith Hart, an anthropologist who specialised in African societies, was working for a research project of the International Labour Organisation. he gave name, ‘informal sector’ to unorganized sector. 1. Low levels of skill. Workers in this sector have low levels of education and thus they have low skills. This is the reason why they are engaged in jobs involving low technology. Worker in the formal sector have higher degree of skill and their position in the labour is better 2. Easy entry. Getting work in the informal sec...