According to this theory of goal-oriented social evolution, then,the natural and obvious maturation of a society or a nation must proceed from the first set of characteristics defining a “primitive” society (such as extended families, religious ideologies, and closed status systems) to the more developed set of characteristics defining a “modern” society (such as nuclear families, secular ideologies, and achievement oriented systems).

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