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

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

The Romantic reaction against reason, industry, and the sober virtues led to a downgrading of order as well. In art, spontaneity took … See more

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

Freud himself was a highly organised personality, ordering his life – at work and play – with the regularity of a timetable.
William Osler See more