Traditional regionalised life forms
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The ideal type of traditional life forms and regional societies (temporal and spatial embeddness) is mentioned by Benno Werlen in opposite to the ideal type of late-modern life forms and globalized societies. The main characteristics of traditional life forms and regional societies are:
1. Traditions intertwine past, present, and future
2. Kinship organizes and stabilizes social relations over time
3. Birth, age, and sex determine social positions
4. Face-to-face situations dominate communication
5. Small amount of interregional communication
6. The local village constitutes the familiar life context
References
Werlen, B. (1995) Sozialgeographie Alltäglicher Regionalisierungen. Band 1: Zur Ontologie von Gesellschaft und Raum. Stuttgart.
Werlen, B. (2009) Structurationist Geography. The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier.
