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noun ideas, values of a people

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culture

noun. ideas, values of a people

cultures

noun. ideas, values of a people

Word Origin & History

coined 1907 in book of the same name by U.S. sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), who also is credited with ethnocentrism, found in the same book.

Example Sentences for folkways

Perhaps "folkways" is not less unfamiliar, but its meaning is more obvious.

The folkways, at a time, provide for all the needs of life then and there.

The folkways, therefore, are not creations of human purpose and wit.

The folkways are necessarily "true" with respect to some world philosophy.

This indicates that the folkways are on their way to a new adjustment.

The body of the folkways constitutes a societal environment.

This is wise, since nothing nurses discontent like interference with folkways.

This is the process by which folkways are rendered obsolete.

Money is another primitive device which is produced in the folkways.

There were folkways in stage coach times, which were fitted to that mode of travel.

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