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Scottish society is the group behaviour of Scots, how they organise themselves and make decisions. The social history of Scotland is a major field within the academic study of Scottish history . Scottish society is based on Western society , and has made key contributions to the spread of Western culture throughout the world.
Scottish society adopted theories of the three estates to describe its society and English terminology to differentiate ranks. Serfdom disappeared from the records in the fourteenth century and new social groups of labourers, craftsmen and merchants, became important in the developing burghs .
High Medieval Scottish society was stratified. More is known about status in early Gaelic society than perhaps any other early medieval European society, owing primarily to the large body of legal texts and tracts on status which are extant. These texts give additional understanding on high medieval Scottish society, so long as inferences are ...
James VI's various measures to exert control included the Statutes of Iona, an attempt to force clan leaders to become integrated into the rest of Scottish society. This started a slow process of change which, by the second half of the 18th century, saw clan chiefs start to think of themselves as commercial landlords, rather than as patriarchs ...
Founded in 1709, the Society had similar aims to the English Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, which being made up of Anglicans did not concern itself with Scotland. [1] Its main activity was in evangelizing the predominantly Catholic Scottish Highlands , sending ministers to Scottish emigrant communities overseas, and sending ...
A table of ranks in early modern Scottish society Early modern Scotland was a hierarchical society, with a series of ranks and marks of status. Below the king were the great magnates , who by this period were no longer a feudal nobility, whose power was based on territorial landholding, but an honorific peerage, and land had become a commodity ...
Saint Andrew's Society refers to one of many independent organizations celebrating Scottish heritage which can be found all over the world. Some Saint Andrew's Societies limit membership to people born in Scotland or their descendants.
Scottish Children's Reporter Administration; Scottish common sense realism; Scottish cringe; Scottish people; Scottish Refugee Council; Scottish Social Attitudes Survey; Sectarianism in Glasgow; Senchus fer n-Alban; Sept