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.