Pakistan

Pakistan is the sixth most populous nation in the world.

History

I have fairly little information about prehistory, but this was a fairly important region in antiquity. More is known of it in classical and medieval times, and it has become significant in modern times. Its future has not yet been well examined.

Other Sociology

Other Peoples of the World

Other Nations

Pakistan is connected to various other nations. Those I have connected it to so far are listed under the peoples they belong to. [These will include Senegal Angola, Zimbabwe, Mali, Zambia, Cuba, Greece, Portugal, Belgium Tunisia, Czech Republic, Guinea, Rwanda, Serbia, Chad, Hungary, Belarus Somalia, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Sweden, Haiti, Burundi, Benin, Austria Azerbaijan, Honduras, Switzerland, Bulgaria]

Asiatic peoples

Pakistan is associated with and belongs to Asiatic peoples and is closely related to many of them. Cambodia can be considered.

It is connected specifically to South Asian peoples which also include Sri Lanka. India is closely connected. Bangladesh was formerly politically part of Pakistan. Nepal can be connected.

There are also connections to Middle East, including Syria. Persian peoples including those of Afghanistan can be connected. Iran can be connected. Mesopotamian peoples including those of Iraq can be connected. Arabian peoples including those of Yemen can be connected. Saudi Arabia can be connected. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. North African peoples including those of Algeria can be connected. Morocco can be connected.

Connections to Central Asia including peoples found in China Kazakhstan can also be mentioned. Inner Asian peoples including those of Uzbekistan can be connected.

Connections to Southeast Asia including Australia can also be mentioned. There are connections to Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines . There are also connections to Mainland Southeast Asia including Malaysia. Burma can be connected. Thailand can be connected. Vietnam can be connected.

It is connected to peoples of the Orient including China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea.

Western civilization

Western Civilization has various connections to Pakistan. Guatemala can be connected.

Anglic peoples including those of Australia are connected. British peoples including those of the UK can be connected. Anglo-American peoples including those of Canada can be connected. The United States can be connected.

Northeast European peoples including Poland are connected. Russia can be connected. Ukraine can be connected.

There may be connections to Latin peoples including those of Ecuador. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including those of France can be connected. Hispanic peoples including those of Chile can be considered. Spain can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples such as those of Venezuela can be considered. Colombia can be connected. Hispanic Peruvian American peoples such as those of Peru can be connected. Hispanic Argentine American peoples such as those of Argentina can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be considered.

Germanic peoples including those of Netherlands can be connected. Germany can be connected.

Balkan peoples including Romania can be connected. Scandinavian peoples can also be considered.

African peoples

There are also connections to African peoples such as those of Niger.

East African peoples including those of Uganda can be considered. Northern East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. Central East African peoples such as those of Kenya can be connected. Tanzania can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected.

Southern African peoples including those of Malawi can be connected. South Africa can be connected. Mozambique can be connected. Madagascar can be connected.

West African peoples including those of Burkina Faso can be connected. Southern Coastal West African peoples including those of Ghana can be connected. Nigeria can be connected. Cote d'Ivoire can be connected.

Central African peoples including those of Cameroon can be connected. Congo (DR) can be connected.

American Indian peoples

American Indian peoples seem to have fairly weak connections to Pakistan. Guatemala can be considered.

North American Indian peoples found in Canada can be connected. Western North American Indian peoples including those of the western United States can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples including those of the eastern United States can be connected.

Middle American Indian peoples found in Mexico can be connected. Southwestern American Indian peoples such as those of the southwest United States can be connected.

South American Indian peoples found in Ecuador can be connected. Amazonian peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Brazil can be connected. Andean peoples such as those of Chile can be connected. Colombia can be connected. Argentina can be connected. Peru can be connected. Venezuela can be connected. Cono/Southern American Indian peoples such as those of Chile can be connected. Argentina can be connected.

Communities

Major cities include:

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes such as the agricultural revolution will also be discussed. The agrarian revolution and bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be considered. Changes associated with the Industrial revolution such as the early industrial revolution and middle industrial revolution can be connected. The late industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors

Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected. Demographic change can be connected. Natural change can be connected.

Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered.

Social types

A mixture of industrial society including late industrial, middle industrial, and early industrial features is present. Most of the country seems to remain principally agrarian society. Early modern society, late iron age society, early iron age society, and Bronze age society can be connected. Horticultural society can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected.

Social structure includes anthropological structure and cultural structure. Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Its traditions are primarily abrahamic, that is, Islamic, with fairly minimal Christianity including Roman Catholicism, Portestantism, Orthodoxy, or Mormonism . It is not certain whether Old Christianity reached Pakistan. Judaism can be connected. There are also mixtures of Asiatic religion including Indian, Persian, and Oriental religions. Pagan religion including Asian pagan, European pagan, African religion, American Indian pagan, and Neopagan religion seems less directly useful. There are also secular traditions. I am uncertain about its religious organization including the relative importance of highly structured, fragmented, or unstructured organization. The distinctive practices and beliefs remain to be examined.

Government

Particular governments including local and national governments are useful. Pakistan has connections to international government including traditional empires, Colonial empires, and modern compacts. Government activities such as succession, administration, and international relations can be considered. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legislative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government is important.Law including tribal law, Asiatic law, Western law, and International law will be connected.

Economics

economic activities such as production, distribution, and consumption will be discussed. Industries and companies, including agriculture, extraction and manufacturing, buildings and construction, social and medical services, transportation, communication, and commercial and financial services can be considered. Economic systems including firms, networks, economic system types, and system behavior will be important.

Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, and educational organization will be useful. Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected.

More information on families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families will be included.

Culture

Behavioral components such as customs will be added. Occupations including food related, building related, transportation related, communication related, industrial occupations, and service occupations can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including music, dance, theater, games, and sports can be connected. Cultural events including miscellaneous events, gatherings, disasters, and holidays can be considered.Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, and applied science will be useful. Philosophy such as logic, epistemology, metatyphsics, aesthetics, ethics, special topics, and philosophical schools and doctrines may be useful. Material culture including foodstuffs, clothing, buildings, transportation technology, communication technology, industrial technology, and other artifacts is significant.

Anthropology

Particular groups are important. Human geography is also significant. Pakistan is located in the area of Asian geography. It has an estimated total area of 803,940 km2, giving it a mean population density of 208.67 persons per km2. Human ecology including the effects of environment on people, other life forms, and the effects of people on the environment can be considered. Physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion can be considered. Demography including births, migration, deaths, population size and structure, and population change can be considered. Estimated population (July 2008) is 167,762,040. Social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social groups, and social group types will be useful.

Personal studies

I do not yet have biography of specific individuals.

The human body including body systems, body functions, life cycle, disease, and form and appearance seems to be indirectly connected. Psychology including connections to behavioral fundamentals, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, personality, and social psychology seem to be indirectly useful.

Science

Physics, chemistry, astronomy, and earth science have varying degrees of usefulness. Biology including molecular biology, cell biology, organism biology, systematics, and ecology should be helpful. Ecology including behavioral ecology, population ecology, community ecology, system ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography can be connected. Biohistory including Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic life may be useful.


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