Traditional regionalised life forms

From Geography

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

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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.