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2021
Abstract A constant source in academic discussion of guanxi is a book, universally regarded as a template for understanding guanxi, first published in 1947 by Fei Xiaotong. The relevance of Fei’s model is critically assessed in the chapter.
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Abstract A constant source in academic discussion of guanxi is a book, universally regarded as a template for understanding guanxi, first published in 1947 by Fei Xiaotong. The relevance of Fei’s model is critically assessed in the chapter.
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Infant allocare in traditional societies
Physiology & Behavior, 2018Across human societies infants receive care from both their mothers and others. Reproductive cooperation raises two important questions: how does allocare benefit mothers and infants, and why do caretakers help mothers when they could spend their time in other, perhaps more valuable ways?
Karen L. Kramer, Amanda Veile
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2018
Traditional society is modernity’s “other”—that against which we moderns identify ourselves as modern. We believe that we live in a world of extraordinary dynamism unlike any other, while other societies honor their traditions and change very little. If modernity gets its start in the Renaissance, as Foucault held In The Order of Things, then, by his ...
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Traditional society is modernity’s “other”—that against which we moderns identify ourselves as modern. We believe that we live in a world of extraordinary dynamism unlike any other, while other societies honor their traditions and change very little. If modernity gets its start in the Renaissance, as Foucault held In The Order of Things, then, by his ...
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2003
Abstract To Europeans of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment the Chinese Empire seemed to show the possibility of a polity based on reason without hereditary privilege or religious authority, ruled by a philosopher-king counselled by philosophers.
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Abstract To Europeans of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment the Chinese Empire seemed to show the possibility of a polity based on reason without hereditary privilege or religious authority, ruled by a philosopher-king counselled by philosophers.
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Fertility in Traditional Societies
1988This chapter is a preliminary attempt to characterise reproductive patterns in traditional, pre-industrial societies, including huntergatherers, tribal horticulturalists and pastoralists and settled peasant agriculturalists. Assertions about the level of fertility in such societies have played a key role in the development of theoretical models in ...
Kenneth L. Campbell, James W. Wood
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Traditional Jewish Society and Modern Society
1996To the observer of the contemporary scene it sometimes appears as if great social and cultural differences separate such Jewries as those of Yemen and Hungary, and those of Morocco and Poland. The aim of this chapter is to give the reader a historical and sociological perspective on this matter.
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Adaptation of Traditional Society To Modern Mass Society
Diogenes, 1961This paper is confined to Indian, more specifically Hindu, society. It tries to assess the process of change going on in this society from the point of view of new needs and old values. In doing so, it draws on an unscholarly but inside acquaintance with the situation and makes no claim to completeness either of analysis or treatment.
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