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Traditional Society Vs. Modern Society

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Society is always progressing, it is able to evolve from the past and reconstruct itself. As the new paradigm shifts, the society is able to adjust to new ideas and concepts that enable us to grow and evolve. Since the population’s innate foundation of society, is the people, the people have an innate responsibility to evolve with the society as well as analyze the basic behavioral systems of specific groups in order to understand how we impact the society as well as how we describe our society. Over the past decade society has established new values and deceptions that has contented to the major destinations between traditional society and modern society. In this essay, the purpose will be to show the reasons why modern society is more …show more content…

However, in traditional society gender roles are social norms that people have to obey to, where certain behaviors and tasks are expected. In traditional society people are to engage in activities that are in accordance with their gender. Woman in traditional society were to honour her family and her husband. The way the woman would truly prove her honour was sexual shame. Explained by Campbell in his text “A study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek mountain Community” he describes a Greek ethnic group The Sarakatsan he explains: The quality required of women in relation to honor is shame, particularly sexual shame. Subjectively the woman’s sexual shame is not simply a fear of external sanctions; it is an instinctive revulsion from sexual activity, an attempt in dress, movement, and attitude, to disguise the fact that she possesses the physical attributes of her sex. Maidens must be virgins, and even married women must remain virginal in thought and expression” (Campbell, 110). That is to say women were not to be expressive in their thoughts and the way they behave though her reputation reflects the family. However, the restrictions posed on woman was equally imposed on men. In traditional society men had to be preserved as individuals who were strong, fearless, courageous masculine and accept the depictions of gender roles. Noted again by Campbell about the Sarakatsan family stating: “However sick

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