Definition of Folkways

1. Noun. (plural of folkway) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Folkways

1. folkway [n] - See also: folkway

Lexicographical Neighbors of Folkways

folksingers
folksinging
folksingings
folksong
folksongs
folksonomies
folksonomy
folkster
folksters
folkstyle
folksy
folktale
folktales
folktronica
folkway
folkways (current term)
folkweave
folky
foller
follered
follering
follers
folles
follian process
folliberin
follically
follically challenged
follicle-stimulating hormone-releasing factor

Literary usage of Folkways

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education by Joseph Kinmont Hart (1918)
"As in all primitive communities, education in early Rome was provided for in the customs, habits, and traditions of the folkways. ..."

2. Democracy in Education: A Social Interpretation of the History of Education by Joseph Kinmont Hart (1918)
"As in all primitive communities, education in early Rome was provided for in the customs, habits, and traditions of the folkways. ..."

3. Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation by Lucius Moody Bristol (1915)
"WILLIAM G. SUMNER (1840-1910) folkways Although Sumner was primarily a sociologist, we have in folkways a mine of classified information concerning social ..."

4. The Concept Standard: A Historical Survey of what Men Have Conceived as by Anne Mary Nicholson (1910)
"folkways are unconscious, spontaneous, unco-ordinated mass- phenomena, ... These folkways are not creations of human purpose and will, but are like the ..."

5. Through War to Peace: A Study of the Great War as an Incident in the by Albert Galloway Keller (1921)
"folkways AND SOCIETAL CODES OP CONDUCT THE central figure in societal evolution is, as we shall view it, a human society. This is a group of human beings ..."

6. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner (1921)
"... CHAPTER II folkways THESE migrations into the inland valleys of the Old South mark the first great westward thrust of the American frontier. ..."

7. Trade-morals: Their Origin, Growth and Province by Edward Day Page (1914)
"Business is, therefore, due to an effort to cater to the folkways which it discovers in groups whose needs it is organized to supply. ..."

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