folkways
the ways of living, thinking, and acting in a human group, built up without conscious design but serving as compelling guides of conduct.
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How to use folkways in a sentence
To them, it is possible to embrace that flag as a statement about Southern folkways beyond the ugly racial part.
We've Got Bigger Problems Than a Confederate Flag | John McWhorter | August 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTodd, who wears a goatee, is also deeply knowledgeable about politics and Washington folkways.
Van Ronk described how when visiting Asch he would put on his “folkways suit,” a filthy jacket that smelled of acetone.
Fact Vs. Fiction in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: The Real Story of Folk is Far Less Dejected Than the Movie | Jimmy So | December 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt includes accommodation to the folkways, the mores, the conventions, and the social ritual (Sittlichkeit).
Introduction to the Science of Sociology | Robert E. ParkCustom and the folkways, like habit in the individual, may be regarded as a mere residuum of past practices.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology | Robert E. Park
For practical purposes morals mean customs, folkways, established collective habits.
Human Nature and Conduct | John DeweyI therefore turned aside to write a treatise on the "folkways," which I now offer.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerChapter 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
British Dictionary definitions for folkways
/ (ˈfəʊkˌweɪz) /
sociol traditional and customary ways of living
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