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A pillarized society means a society that is vertically divided in subgroups. Possible subgroups are catholics, protestans or socialist. Every pillar has its own elite, and in every pillar life poor and rich people. What these groups binds are in most people religion, culture, language or in some case political opinion. The Netherlands until the 1960s where a pillarized society and so was Belgium for an even longer period.

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