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Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

S. N. Eisenstadt
S. N. Eisenstadt
Affiliation:
Hebrew University
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This paper is based on certain concepts about the nature of social and cultural order and traditions. We view social and cultural traditions, first, as the major ways of looking at the basic problems of social and cultural order, and of posing the major questions about them; second, as giving various possible answers to these problems; and, third, as the organization of institutional structures for implementing different types of solutions or answers to these problems.

Type
Research Article
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1969 , pp. 451 - 475
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1969

References

1 See Shils, E., ‘Charisma, Order and Status’, American Sociological Review, 30 (04, 1965), 199–213CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Eisenstadt, S. N., ‘Charisma and Institution Building’, in Eisen-stadt, S. N., ed., Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Heritage of Sociology Series, 1968), pp. iv–lvi.Google Scholar

2 See Shils, E., ‘Centre and Periphery’, in The Logic of Personal Knowledge, Essays Presented to MichaelPolanyi (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961), pp. 117–31.Google Scholar

3 The great propensity for academic, professional, bureaucratic, white collar occupations as against more technical, business, occupations which is so widespread in many of the modernizing countries on all levels of the occupational scale is perhaps the clearest manifestation or indication of these trends.

4 A fuller exposition of these points can be found in Eisenstadt, S. N., ‘The Protestant Ethic Thesis in an Analytical and Comparative Framework’, The Protestant Ethic and Modernization, A Comparative View (New York: Basic Books, 1968), pp. 3–46.Google Scholar