conventionalization
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All the phenomena in Hindostan show how completely the moral effect depends on the integrity or decay of conventionalization.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
The vows show us the motive which maintained this usage, and these statements clearly show the conventionalization which enveloped the whole.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
The conventionalization consists in ignoring breaches of the ordinary taboo.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
In the mythologies this kind of conventionalization was essential.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
Things which exist under conventionalization never furnish grounds for an ethical judgment on the group which practices them.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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