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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