The valorisation of order in the early stages of commercialization and industrialisation was linked by R. H. Tawney to Puritan concerns for system and method in 17th … See more

Sociologists—while noting that praise of order is generally associated with a conservative stance – one that can be traced back through Edmund Burke and Richard Hooker See more

Wallace Stevens wrote of the "blessed rage for order" in Ideas of Order (1936). See more

• Conscientiousness – Personality trait of being orderly and following the rules
• Convention – Set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted … See more

The Romantic reaction against reason, industry, and the sober virtues led to a downgrading of order as well. In art, spontaneity took precedence over method and craft; in life, the See more

Jungians considered orderliness (along with restraint and responsibility) as one of the virtues attributable to the senex or old man—as opposed … See more

Freud himself was a highly organised personality, ordering his life – at work and play – with the regularity of a timetable.
William Osler was another highly successful physician who built his life on a highly organised basis. See more