Riesman, referring to tradition-directed people, says 
(p. 26):

     Since the type of social order we have been discussing is 
     relatively unchanging, the conformity of the individual 
     tends to be dictated to a very large degree by power 
     relations among the various age and sex groups, the 
     clans, castes, professions, and so forth—relations which 
     have endured for centuries and are modified but slightly, 
     if at all, by successive generations. The culture controls 
     behavior minutely, and, . . . careful and rigid etiquette 
     governs the fundamentally influential sphere of kin 
     relationships. . . . Little energy is directed toward finding 
     new solutions of the age-old problems . . . 

Riesman points out that to meet even the rigid demands of