ABSTRACT
In the classic traditional societies the share granted each individual was generally controlled by two related rigidities: one technical, the other social. Traditional societies developed within relatively static technological possibilities. The dynamic revolutionary assumptions have required a new concept of social legitimacy. Societies which have been touched and moved by the scientific revolution and the related process of growth stand, of course, at different stages. In traditional societies a sense of psychological participation derived from a known and stable role in the institutions of a structured social and cultural life: the family, the clan or tribe, the guild, the religious and other rituals of the community. The introduction into a traditional society of enclaves of growth— for that is how it always begins—sets in motion a complex process at every level: political, social, economic, and psychological. Developing societies are, by definition, divided societies.
