The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

Hayek's greatest intellectual debt was to Carl Menger, who pioneered an approach to social explanation similar to that developed in Britain by Bernard Mandeville and the Scottish moral philosophers in the Scottish Enlightenment.

The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

It is prominent in Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish and other Celtic cultures within traditional or folk music and as a social and political symbol.

* 1780 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist ( d. 1847 )

The Scottish National Party ( SNP ; ; ) is a social democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.

Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing highlighted the link between social and cultural expectations and compulsion, in the context of schizophrenia and other mental illness, suggesting that schizogenesis may account for some of the psychological aspects of zombification.

A Scottish Country dance ( SCD ) is a form of social dance involving groups of couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns according to a predetermined choreography.

Scottish country dancing ( a social form of dance with three or more couples of dancers ) should not be confused with Scottish highland dance ( a solo form of dance ).

His novels of Scottish history such as Waverley ( 1814 ) and Rob Roy ( 1817 ) focus upon a middling character who sits at the intersection of various social groups in order to explore the development of society through conflict.

The two became a single local authority district in 1975, before Scottish Local Government reorganisation in the 1990s re-integrated them with Kirkintilloch and Bishopbriggs to form the East Dunbartonshire administrative area, although transport and social networks link the town much more closely with Glasgow itself.

From those early days, social dancing formed the Society ’ s primary activity, but it was then made up of both ballroom and Scottish country dancing.

This history traces the evolution of the village through successive periods beginning with the original English, Scottish and Welsh settlers and the establishment of their religious, cultural and social patterns, to the arrival of French-Canadian workers in the 1870s and 1880s, followed by Polish, Italian and Syro-Lebanese immigrants between 1890 and 1920.

* C. H. Douglas ( 1879 – 1952 ), Scottish engineer and pioneer of the social credit concept

A distinctive " Scottish social ethos " informed the activities of prominent Scots in the years of Empire, when they had invested heavily in the concept of Britishness, though he felt that the Scots had meddled much more overweeningly with the English sense of identity than the English ever did with the Scots '.

It continues downhill past Moray House ( now the main academic offices of Moray House School of Education of the University of Edinburgh ), the old Canongate Tolbooth ( now a museum of social history called The People's Story ), the Kirk of the Canongate ( the Canongate's parish church ) and the new Scottish Parliament Building to Holyrood Palace and the ruined Holyrood Abbey.

* Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher, social scientist and historian

As a child he contrasted the social order represented by his maternal grandfather with the clan mentality of his Scottish father and frequently drew analogies between the Highland clans and the Māori tribes.

The " vulnarability index " ranked 90 Scottish locations according to factors associated with economic and social change.

by Hill Burton, and published 1860, though written in his closing years and not extending beyond the year 1770, is interesting as a picture of Scottish life, social and ecclesiastical, in the 18th century.

The Scottish Labour Party ( SLP ) was formed on January 18, 1976, as a breakaway from the UK Labour Party, by members disaffected with the then Labour Government's failure to secure a devolved Scottish Assembly, as well as with its social and economic agenda.

It launched a highly successful career that probably more than any other helped define and popularise Scottish cultural identity.

Antigonish Town is a fairly even mix of Irish and Scottish, and the Irish presence contributes to Nova Scotia's Celtic cultural character.

In the cultural sphere, Scott's Waverley novels played a significant part in the movement ( begun with James Macpherson's Ossian cycle ) in rehabilitating the public perception of the culture of the Scottish Highlands and its culture, which had been formally suppressed as barbaric – and viewed in the southern mind as a breeding ground of hill bandits, religious fanaticsim, and Jacobite rebellions.

This clearly rules out any possible cultural correlation with later towers such as Scottish Brochs and Israelian El Awhat.

It has a cultural significance, symbolising the separation between the two, similar to the symbolism of Hadrian's Wall between England and Scotland in the Scottish Marches.

They gave Scots a path to assimilation and cultural integration as Scottish New Zealanders.

This English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish colonization caused dramatic upheaval among the indigenous civilizations in the Americas, both directly through the use of imported military force and indirectly through cultural disruption and introduced diseases.

Its population is a diverse mixture of nationalities which contributes to various Scottish, Acadian, African Canadian and eastern European cultural events being held throughout the year.

Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder ( 5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008 ) was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.

The first half of the film shows Gowan McGland ( Tom Conti ), a creatively blocked Scottish poet, cutting a swath through various older society women as he recites his verse to various arts groups and cultural societies.

This was a common Scottish and Irish cultural practice, and would tie in with, and perhaps explain, parts of his later life.

After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson followed an essentially bohemian life course in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish enlightenment.

It launched a highly successful career, with historical novels such as Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian, probably doing more than any other figure to define and popularise Scottish cultural identity.

Most significantly, Siol nan Gaidheal's concerns are mainly cultural and social whereas those of the Scottish National Party are mainly political and economic.

However, his broad Scottish accent and British cultural references made success in the US improbable.

John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction.

However, there was great cultural exchange between Scotland and Ireland, with Irish poets composing for Scottish or Pictish patrons, and Scottish poets composing for Irish patrons.

In the months leading up to opening night, Purdy pledged that the new channel would provide first class entertainment and as much cultural programming as possible as well as allowing Scottish talent every opportunity to develop and be seen on STV.

The arrival of many immigrants directly from Britain, including a large number from Scotland, greatly affected the cultural life of French-speaking Quebecers, with many Scottish traditions and influences still evident in Quebec today.

In August 2010 the islanders were reported to be seeking to establish cultural links with a Scottish island.