What problems are the result of defects in folkways and mores?
Variation in nature causes the offspring to differ from the parents and from one another; variation in the folkways causes those of one period (or place) to differ from their predecessors and to some extent among themselves.
When folkways assume the character of mores, they are no longer merely matters of fact and common sense, they are judgments upon matters which were probably once live issues and as such they may be regarded as the products of public opinion.
The folkways are, therefore: (1) subject to a strain of improvement toward better adaptation of means to ends, as long as the adaptation is so imperfect that pain is produced.
The actual reorganization of human nature takes place in response to the folkways and mores, the traditions and conventions, of the group.
Tradition always looks to the folkwaysas constituting the matter to be transmitted.
Society now may be defined as the social heritage of habit and sentiment, folkways and mores, technique and culture, all of which are incident or necessary to collective human behavior.
The operation by whichfolkways are produced consists in the frequent repetition of petty acts, often by great numbers acting in concert or, at least, acting in the same way when face to face with the same need.
In immigration the accommodation to the economic situation and to the folkways and mores of the native society are more important than in colonization.
Each group thinks its own folkways the only right ones, and if it observes that other groups have other folkways, these excite its scorn.
Folkways correspond to it to cover both the inner and the outer relation.
What illustrations of the difference between folkways and mores would you suggest?
Many of North Dakota's characteristic folkways represent foreign cultures rather than anything intrinsically American.
Hence our judgments of the good or evil consequences of folkways are to be kept separate from our study of the historical phenomena of them, and of their strength and the reasons for it.
Therefore the mores and the morality may move together, and there is no permanent or universal standard by which right and truth in regard to these matters can be established and different folkways compared and criticised.
Usages are folkways which contain no principle of welfare, but serve convenience so long as all know what they are expected to do.
The ways of carrying on war have changed with all new inventions of weapons or armor, and have grown into folkways of commanding range and importance.
Each case of status is a nucleus of leading interest with the folkways which cluster around it.
The faith in the world philosophy drew lines outside of which the folkways must not go.
The folkways about propriety and modesty are sometimes purely conventional and sometimes inherently real.
They adopted taboos and established folkways to protect interests.
The life of society consists in making folkwaysand applying them.
The folkways of the Middle Ages were fantastic and extravagant.
From the folkways as to kinship all the simplest conceptions of societal rights and duties were derived, societal institutions were constructed, and societal organization has grown up.
The artifacts are tools and weapons which, by their utility, modify the folkways and become components in them.
Folkways These migrations into the inland valleys of the Old South mark the first great westward thrust of the American frontier.
To get all such folks to work together that's why we formed the American Folkways Association.
To that end he has become a prime mover in a folksong and folklore conservation movement called American Folkways Association.
Then he told about the American Folkways Association and its purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folkways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: civilization; complex; culture; ethos; mores; society; trait
