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  2. Traditional society - Wikipedia

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    Traditional society has often been contrasted with modern industrial society, with figures like Durkheim and Pierre Bourdieu stressing such polarities as community vs. society or mechanical vs. organic solidarity; [3] while Claude Lévi-Strauss saw traditional societies as 'cold' societies in that they refused to allow the historical process to define their social sense of legitimacy.

  3. Modern Orthodox Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Further, in practice, except at their extremes, the differences between Religious Zionism and Modern Orthodoxy in Israel are not pronounced, and they are often identical, especially in recent years and for the younger generation. [33] Nevertheless, the two movements are philosophically distinct on two broad counts.

  4. Modernization theory - Wikipedia

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    The binary between traditional and modern is unhelpful, as the two are linked and often interdependent, and "modernization" does not come as a whole. Modernization theory has also been accused of being Eurocentric , as modernization began in Europe, with the Industrial Revolution , the French Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848 [ 53 ] and ...

  5. Is Your Aesthetic Modern or Contemporary? - AOL

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    Modern style, despite its name, actually originated in the late-19th to early-20th century. In contrast, contemporary style emerged as a design term in the 1970s or 1980s, and it continues to be ...

  6. Magic: The Gathering formats - Wikipedia

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    The format differs from traditional booster draft in that packs are opened one at a time and are laid out for each player to see. Players openly pick one card from the pack in turn. Once each player has picked a card from the booster pack, the draft order reverses so that the last player to draft a card from the pack takes the next draft pick ...

  7. Jewish religious movements - Wikipedia

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    Jewish religious movements, sometimes called "denominations", include diverse groups within Judaism which have developed among Jews from ancient times. Samaritans are also considered ethnic Jews by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, although they are frequently classified by experts as a sister Hebrew people, who practice a separate branch of Israelite religion.

  8. Tradition - Wikipedia

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    For native peoples like the Māori in New Zealand, there is conflict between the fluid identity assumed as part of modern society and the traditional identity with the obligations that accompany it; the loss of language heightens the feeling of isolation and damages the ability to perpetuate tradition. [46]

  9. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    Modern art therefore belongs only to the later phases of modernity. [ 74 ] For this reason art history keeps the term modernity distinct from the terms Modern Age and Modernism – as a discrete "term applied to the cultural condition in which the seemingly absolute necessity of innovation becomes a primary fact of life, work, and thought".