This document discusses sources of ethics in Pakistani society, including parents, media, peer groups, educational institutions, and experiences at different life stages. It notes that parents play an important role in personality development through their behavior and guidance. Media portrays events truthfully and journalists have an ethical duty to report facts. Peer groups and schools socialize individuals and teach values of society. Experiences throughout life, including in teen years and adulthood, further shape a person's ethics.

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Ethics
Ethics from the Ancient Greek moral philosophy", from the adjective of "custom,
habit” a major branch of philosophy, is the study of values and customs of a person or group.
It covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil,
and responsibility.
Ethics is a branch of philosophy. It is related to human nature. It reflects our
behaviour. It plays an important role in building up our nature and behaviour. As a society is
made by people and their behaviour and ethics plays an important role in organizing our
behaviours so it is an important part of a society. Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals
with moral component of human life.
Sources ofEthics in PakistanSociety:
There are certain sources of ethics. These sources include those persons, places or people
which affect our lives at different stages and thus help us in developing and adopting our
ethics. These sources are following:
1. Parents
2. Media
3. Peer groups
4. Educational institutions
5. Teen Age (school level)
6. Adult Age (higher studies)
7. Observations & Experiences
Parents
Parents play important role in the personality development of their children. Because
children first practical learning institution is his mother. Parents are the role of model for their
children initially at first stage. Parents portray their behaviour and attitude toward their
children. Parent teaches us how to behave in front of guest. How to behave with elders, how
to do talk and walk, how to deal with others how to perform certain acts in a good manner,
how to respect elder and love younger. They always guide us to make comparison between
evil and good. Parents are builder of our personality to keep good thinking, habits, character
and be bonified to everyone. They let us know do not harm the character and always respect
for self esteem, self image. As it is our moral obligation to do have spoken truth at any

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condition or at any form. Parents training remain long lasting and unending impact in the
personality of children.
Children always get impact for mostly by their parents by copying them and behaving
as his own parents are behaving. Our ethical behaviour is product of multiple component and
course of action. But parents are important more than any of other. Because we spend most of
our time with our parents. We follow more to our parent rather than any other person. Our
parents are our more expose and open to us so we believe to do whatever comes to our mind.
If we do something wrong with our parent they can forgive because we are their children but
any other person cannot forgive us.
Media
Media is a fourth pillar of any independent and advance nation that portrays the true
picture of events and happening in front of whole nation. Media is building block of our
nation in today era. Because today it’s a period of information explosions and information
imperialism. The more you are getting the information the more you can govern anywhere at
any platform. In the history of Pakistan we had faced many issues but the issue of Lal masjid
is somewhat extreme and most serious because it was religious issue. Journalist presented the
whole of picture of battle field round the clock. The role of journalist was very crucial in
presenting the right news at the right time. They carried out their ethical and moral duty by
presenting truth and reality. Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering,
reporting and interpreting information.
Peer Groups
The peer group becomes an agency of enculturation and learning. Even very young
children develop a sense of self from their perceptions of important people in their
surroundings, including relatives, teachers, and peers. Socioeconomic status, ethnic identity,
and parents’ occupations affect how families view themselves and the process by which they
socialize their children.
Friendship is more often seen as something that happens outside work. Sure you
might make friends at work. But while work friends are great for happy hours, water cooler
conversations and lunch, they also positively impact employees' opinion of their job and
employer.

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Educational institutions
Education, has a great social importance specially in the modern, complex
industrialised societies. Philosophers of all periods, beginning with ancient stages, devoted to
it a great deal of attention. The school devotes much of its time and energy to the matter such
as co-operation, good citizenship, doing one's duty and upholding the law. Education helps in
transmitting culture through proper moulding of social personalities. In this way, it
contributes to the integration, to survive and to reproduce themselves. Education must
prepare the student for future occupational positions, the youth should be enabled to play a
productive role in society. Education acts as integrative force in society by communicating
value, that unite different sections of society. The family may fail to provide the child the
essential knowledge of the social skills and values of the wider society.
Teen Age (school level)
The brain grows most rapidly in the early years. High quality teachers and preschools
can have a long-term effect on improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.
The areas of development that preschool education covers varies. However, the following
main themes are typically offered.
 Personal, social, economic and emotional development
 Communication, (including sign language), talking and listening
 World knowledge and understanding
 Creative and aesthetic development
 Mathematical awareness
 Physical development
 Physical health
 Teamwork
 Self-help skills
 Social skills

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Adult Age (higher studies)
Students who attend institutions of higher education obtain a wide range of personal,
financial, and other lifelong benefits. Higher education can be considered a great tool for
everyday life too. People who have a higher education are easier to talk too.
Observations & Experiences
Social experience provides individuals with the skills and habits necessary for
participating within their own societies, as a society itself is formed through a plurality
of shared,experiences forming norms, customs, values, traditions, social,roles, symbols and
languages. Experience plays an important role in experiential groups.

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