They favour restricting the function of the law to enforcing those traditions, not only because they believe that individuals should be permitted to take moral responsibility for their own choices but also because they believe that law becomes corrupted when it is used as a tool for "making men moral".
That's because in sexually segregated societies, the matriarchs tend to have custody of younger women and girls, and they enforce the traditions.
Laws that hold perpetrators of crimes against children accountable must be implemented and vigorously enforced; attitudes, traditions and practices that are harmful to children must be challenged; and children themselves must get the information and life skills they need to protect themselves.
Edgefield had a tradition of enforcing its Jim Crow laws with a heavy hand — a necessity, whites believed, in a county where two-thirds of the residents were black.
It was an unusual religious display by a head of state in a country that has had a bloody tradition of enforcing the separation of church and state.
Since 2004, head scarves and other signs of religious affiliation have been banned from public schools by a government determined to enforce France's tradition of strict secularism amid fears of growing fundamentalism among France's five million Muslims.
But most analysts said that was unlikely, because Turkey had too long a secular tradition, enforced by its powerful military, and too little cooperation with Arab nations, which do not see Turkey as one of them.
As Riesman understood it, the primary disciplining emotion under tradition direction is shame, the threat of ostracism and exile that enforces traditional action.
Music must be stately and dignified, contributing to the inner harmony that is the foundation of good behaviour, and all art is at its noblest when incorporated into the rituals and traditions that enforce the stability and order of social life.
And the best beer and vodka in Estonia come from Saaremaa, the island of the wood nymph with the mobile, the island where, during the Soviet occupation, no foreigner was allowed to visit, the island where enforced isolation preserved the traditions and culture of Old Estonia.
