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  2. Traditional society - Wikipedia

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    Traditional society has often been contrasted with modern industrial society, with figures like Durkheim and Pierre Bourdieu stressing such polarities as community vs. society or mechanical vs. organic solidarity; [3] while Claude Lévi-Strauss saw traditional societies as 'cold' societies in that they refused to allow the historical process to define their social sense of legitimacy.

  3. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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  4. Tradition - Wikipedia

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    Traditional society is characterized by lack of distinction between family and business, division of labor influenced primarily by age, gender, and status, high position of custom in the system of values, self-sufficiency, preference to saving and accumulation of capital instead of productive investment, relative autarky. [12]

  5. Traditionalist conservatism - Wikipedia

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    The internal elements of the organic society cannot be randomly reconfigured (similar to a living creature). The organic society is based upon natural needs and instincts, rather than that of a new ideological blueprint conceived by political theorists. [19] Traditional authority is a common tenet of conservatism, albeit expressed in different ...

  6. Society - Wikipedia

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    A society (/ s ə ˈ s aɪ ə t i /) is a ... for example, believed that society constitutes a separate "level" of reality, ... the traditional jumping dance.

  7. Mechanical and organic solidarity - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical solidarity normally operates in traditional and small-scale societies (e.g., tribes). [2] In these simpler societies, solidarity is usually based on kinship ties of familial networks. Organic solidarity is a social cohesion based upon the interdependence that arises between people from the specialization of work and ...

  8. Cultural practice - Wikipedia

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    Cultural practice is the manifestation of a culture or sub-culture, especially in regard to the traditional and customary practices of a particular ethnic or other cultural groups. The term is gaining in importance due to the increased controversy over "rights of cultural practice", which are protected in many jurisdictions for indigenous ...

  9. Traditional authority - Wikipedia

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    Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. Reasons for the given state of affairs include belief that tradition is inherently valuable and a more general appeal to tradition .