Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and MoralsGinn, 1906 - 692 pages |
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... usage . In his life there is nothing free , nol original , nothing spontaneous , no progress towards a higher and better life , and no attempt to improve his condition , mentally , morally , or spiritually . " All men act in this way ...
... usage . In his life there is nothing free , nol original , nothing spontaneous , no progress towards a higher and better life , and no attempt to improve his condition , mentally , morally , or spiritually . " All men act in this way ...
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... usage , and partly on the caprice and convenience of its votaries . " The harm of caste rules is so great that of late they have been broken in some cases , especially in regard to travel over sea , which is a great advantage to Hindoos ...
... usage , and partly on the caprice and convenience of its votaries . " The harm of caste rules is so great that of late they have been broken in some cases , especially in regard to travel over sea , which is a great advantage to Hindoos ...
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... usage , custom , or institution consists in tracing its relation to the mores , and the discussion of societal crises and changes consists in showing their connection with changes in the life conditions , or with the readjustment of the ...
... usage , custom , or institution consists in tracing its relation to the mores , and the discussion of societal crises and changes consists in showing their connection with changes in the life conditions , or with the readjustment of the ...
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... usage , but it is an advantage that there should be - a usage and that all should know and observe it . One way is as good as another , if it is understood and established . The folkways as to public decency belong to the mores ...
... usage , but it is an advantage that there should be - a usage and that all should know and observe it . One way is as good as another , if it is understood and established . The folkways as to public decency belong to the mores ...
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... usage in any group , in so far as it , on the one hand , is not the expression or fulfillment of an absolute natural necessity [ e.g. eating or sleeping ] , and , on the other hand , is independent of the arbitrary will of the ...
... usage in any group , in so far as it , on the one hand , is not the expression or fulfillment of an absolute natural necessity [ e.g. eating or sleeping ] , and , on the other hand , is independent of the arbitrary will of the ...
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Page 394 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 29 - Therefore rights can never be "natural" or "God-given," or absolute in any sense. The morality of a group at a time is the sum of the taboos and prescriptions in the folkways by which right conduct is defined. Therefore morals can never be intuitive. They are historical, institutional, and empirical. World philosophy, life policy, right, rights, and morality are all products of the folkways. They are reflections on, and generalizations from, the experience of pleasure and pain which is won in efforts...
Page 54 - Property, marriage, and religion are the most primary institutions. They began in folkways. They became customs. They developed into mores by the addition of some philosophy of welfare, however crude. Then they were made more definite and specific as regards the rules, the prescribed acts, and the apparatus to be employed. This produced a structure and the institution was complete.
Page 431 - For the man is not of the woman ; but the woman of the man : for neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man : for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.
Page 14 - The Jews divided all mankind into themselves and Gentiles. They were the "chosen people." The Greeks and Romans called all outsiders "barbarians." In Euripides' tragedy of Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia says that it is fitting that Greeks should rule over barbarians, but not contrariwise, because Greeks are free, and barbarians are slaves. The Arabs regarded themselves as the noblest nation and all others as more or less barbarous. In 1896, the Chinese minister of education and his...
Page 12 - The relation of comradeship and peace in the we-group and that of hostility and war towards others-groups are correlative to each other. The exigencies of war with outsiders are what make peace inside, lest internal discord should weaken the we-group for war.
Page 628 - Popular education and certain faiths about popular education are in the mores of our time. We regard illiteracy as an abomination. We ascribe to elementary book learning power to form character, make good citizens, keep family mores pure, elevate morals, establish individual character, civilize barbarians, and cure social vice and disease.
Page 28 - right" ways to satisfy all interests, because they are traditional, and exist in fact. They extend over the whole of life. There is a right way to catch game, to win a wife, to make one's self appear, to cure disease, to honor ghosts, to treat comrades or strangers, to behave when a child is born, on the warpath, in council, and so on in all cases which can arise. The ways are defined on the negative side, that is, by taboos. The "right" way is the way which the ancestors used and which has been...
Page 28 - right" way is the way which the ancestors used and which has been handed down. The tradition is its own warrant. It is not held subject to verification by experience. The notion of right is in the folkways. It is not outside of them, of independent origin, and brought to them to test them. In the folkways, whatever is, is right.