ABSTRACT
A tradition is a general and inherited (from the Latin ‘handed down’) way of thinking, which shapes how one sees the world and responds to experiences of different kinds. It is what Charles Taylor (2007, p.323) refers to as
the generally shared background of understandings of society, which make it possible to function as it does. It is ‘social’ in two ways: in that it is generally shared, and in that it is about society.
