1. Attention to internal continuities, traditions, and structures, and to clashes between non-Western and Western societies and ideas. 2. Before that, however, we must address the question of whether contemporary Western societies are still capitalist. 3. Being a scientist in a western society, the researcher is unlikely to think that music or magic have much influence. 4. Certainly psychoanalytic theory helps understanding of some actions of people in pre-literate societies, or of children and neurotics in Western societies. 5. For example, it can be argued that the value of materialism integrates many parts of the social structure in Western industrial society. 6. For example, it has often been suggested that distinctive working-class and middle-class subcultures exist in Western industrial societies. 7. For instance, in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto. 8. He became interested in merging different exercise routines used in Western society and those used in Eastern society. 9. He saw legal authority as characteristic of modern Western societies. 10. However, affluence and technological advances have created new kinds of safety hazards for people who live in Western society. |