folkways

His knowledge of American idioms and folkways is perfect.

The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes 2000

His knowledge of American idioms and folkways is perfect.

The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes 2000

+ In the present work the proposition to be maintained is that the folkways are the widest, most fundamental, and most important operation by which the interests of men in groups are served, and that the process by which folkways are made is the chief one to which elementary societal or group phenomena are due.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

Every social group has, or tends to have, its own culture, what Sumner calls "folkways," and this culture, imposing its patterns upon the natural man, gives him that particular individuality which characterizes the members of groups.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Thus whenever two groups are brought into contact and contagion, there is, by syncretism, a selection of the folkways which is destructive to some of them.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

I formed the word "folkways" on the analogy of words already in use in sociology.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

For definitions of "folkways" and "mores" see secs. 1, 2, 34, 39, 43, and 66.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

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

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

Dictionary of American Biography than Boston's more individualist Puritanism, while historian David Hackett Fischer has shown how the "folkways" of colonists from four different British regions, with their own variants of Protestantism, subtly molded the character of the sections of America they settled, so that their inhabitants ended up even with differently inflected understandings of the idea of liberty.

City Journal 2009

Politics is another source of friction between grandparents, as some baby boomers cling to the ideals of their youth while others adopted the folkways of America's business and professional classes on their way up the economic ladder.

For Some Grandparents, Last Goal is to Be Grandkids' Favorites Con Chapman 2011