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leading an almost static existence formed the only social organisation: where they survived into the 20th century, as in Australia, paintings, songs, myths and rituals were all used to cement links to a deep-reaching sense of continuity with ancestors and ancestral ways.
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have been seen as effective means of recreating traditional cultures. However, a key contrast now with traditional societies as they were is that participation has become voluntary instead of being ascriptive: fixed in space, social stratification and role expectations.
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thinking was directed at undoing the mindset of traditional society, and replacing a focus upon such concepts as rural, hierarchical, customary or status with one centred on the ideas of urban, egalitarian, progressive or contractual.
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was an intensely local society of self-perpetuating peasant households, living within a slow moving culture dominated by customary law and by respect for ancient authority and pervaded with an ahistorical political
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characterized by an orientation to the past, not the future, with a predominant role for custom and habit. Such societies are marked by a lack of distinction between family and business, with the
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the global elimination of residual, 'traditional' enclaves, giving it its one-dimensional, temporal nature that is no longer offset by living examples of the past alongside the new.
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saw traditional societies as 'cold' societies in that they refused to allow the historical process to define their social sense of legitimacy.
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Greece was a society marked by powerful kinship bonds, fixed status and rigidly defined social expectations; with the classical
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Traditional societies have been seen as characterised by powerful collective memories sanctioned by
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of societies from traditional to modern industrial are now seen as too simplistic, relying on an
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stressing such polarities as community vs. society or mechanical vs. organic solidarity; while
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S. Langlois, Traditions: Social, In: Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Editors-in-Chief,
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saw 20th-century modernisation as encountering two main kinds of traditional society,
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continued the process of challenging and overcoming traditional society.
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The invention of farming some 10,000 years ago led to the development of
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The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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focused upon the concepts of experience, usage, and law-as-custom.
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International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
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International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
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Traditional society has often been contrasted with modern
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Jameson, however, has seen as a defining feature of
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Index

Traditional societies
society
division of labor
industrial society
Durkheim
Pierre Bourdieu
Claude Lévi-Strauss
modernisation theory
W.W. Rostow
agrarian
unilineal evolution
ideal typology
subsistence
face-to-face
informal social control
formal social control
collective ownership
private ownership
ritual
Practice theory
Fredric Jameson
tribal
hunter-gatherers
agrarian societies
Homeric
polis
M. I. Finley
Medieval Europe
mentality
Enlightenment

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