folkways

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to folkways, such as: civilization, development, folklore, habit, knowledge, and lifestyle.

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  • It includes accommodation to the folkways, the mores, the conventions, and the social ritual (Sittlichkeit).

  • Custom and the folkways, like habit in the individual, may be regarded as a mere residuum of past practices.

  • For practical purposes morals mean customs, folkways, established collective habits.

  • I therefore turned aside to write a treatise on the "folkways," which I now offer.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner
  • Chapter II shows the bearing of the folkways on human interests, and the way in which they act or are acted on.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner

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