Compare and Contrast socio-cultural of Northern Europe and Middle East
Compare and contrast socio-cultural of northern Europe and Middle East.
Human beings differentiate and organise themselves into functioning communities from a particular terrain or location. This grouping into functional behaviour or manners is what we name as society that relates to communal living. Communal living includes social classes, problems as well as matters affecting human welfare. Every society has its own norms, a common or a dominant culture. Culture is described to be distinctive ways of living influenced by the ethnicity and the society’s’ believe system built up by the group of people from the same community. Culture incorporates the arts, artefacts customs, rituals and architecture of building and the people (Gee, pp 234). Thus socioculture refers to the changes to residents’ everyday experiences as well as to their values, way of life and intellectual and artistic products.
There are 40 countries across the terrain of Europe. Many of them have their own language and lifestyle. From a logical geographical grouping, Northern Europe also known as the Scandinavian countries consists of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Demark and Finland (Mancini, pp 239). This group is also known as the Nordic countries.
Fig 1: Nordic Countries
These five countries come under the purview of the Nordic Council. Since 1948, the Nordic Council (Nyberg 1995) made an agreement stating free movement of capital and labour. In other words, no passport is required to travel between the Nordic Countries and this to some extent creates challenges for some researchers collating the numbers for travel statistics.
Fig 2: Middle Eastern countries
While Morocco, Mali, Tunisia, Egypt are sometimes grouped with Middle East (Mancini, pp 353) geographically, Israel & Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and United Arab Emirates forms the political grouping of Middle East. For the
Human beings differentiate and organise themselves into functioning communities from a particular terrain or location. This grouping into functional behaviour or manners is what we name as society that relates to communal living. Communal living includes social classes, problems as well as matters affecting human welfare. Every society has its own norms, a common or a dominant culture. Culture is described to be distinctive ways of living influenced by the ethnicity and the society’s’ believe system built up by the group of people from the same community. Culture incorporates the arts, artefacts customs, rituals and architecture of building and the people (Gee, pp 234). Thus socioculture refers to the changes to residents’ everyday experiences as well as to their values, way of life and intellectual and artistic products.
There are 40 countries across the terrain of Europe. Many of them have their own language and lifestyle. From a logical geographical grouping, Northern Europe also known as the Scandinavian countries consists of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Demark and Finland (Mancini, pp 239). This group is also known as the Nordic countries.
Fig 1: Nordic Countries
These five countries come under the purview of the Nordic Council. Since 1948, the Nordic Council (Nyberg 1995) made an agreement stating free movement of capital and labour. In other words, no passport is required to travel between the Nordic Countries and this to some extent creates challenges for some researchers collating the numbers for travel statistics.
Fig 2: Middle Eastern countries
While Morocco, Mali, Tunisia, Egypt are sometimes grouped with Middle East (Mancini, pp 353) geographically, Israel & Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and United Arab Emirates forms the political grouping of Middle East. For the