folkway
suomi-englanti sanakirjafolkway englanniksi
''Often (glossary)'': a belief or custom common to members of a culture or society.
(quote-book)&93; had opposed to the folkways the standard of the humanistic life. It was needful that he continue to affirm that standard by making it visible in his own spiritual manner, by living boldly, dangerously, in the fashion of the artist, by giving himself to life as men in America had never dared give themselves. But it seems that for some reason he has shrunk from continuing the challenge.
(quote-book), (w)|year=1925|page=129|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/ontrailofnegrofo00scar/page/129/mode/1up|oclc=37677604|passage=By the time you are grown up and can consider the folk-ways of your childhood with detached impersonality, you have forgotten what was of most value. Rarely will a child tell frankly of his lore, and rarely can an adult remember.
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(quote-book), (w)|year=1973|section=part 8 (Institutions, Institutionalization, and Change)|page=362|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Emm-_sRtHVEC&pg=PA362|isbn=978-0-390-64373-5|passage=It social institution is a folkway, always new yet ever old, directive and responsive, a spur to and a check upon change, a creature of means and a master of ends.
(quote-book), studies of Congress have acknowledged the great importance of committee action in the legislative process. Stated in terms of legislative folkways, congressmen are expected to specialize in given subjects and then to rely on each other's specialized knowledge in areas that are not within their particular competence.
(quote-book) is not only engaged in making conceivable to the American audience the strange folkways of the Mafia, a process of translation of one signifying system into another. He is also using the difference of the Mafia to explore what the culture chooses to keep out of sight—the culture's preference for corporate values above individual/democratic and family values, and the Mafia's preference for family values not bound by the cash nexus but by blood, that is, values of the heart.
(quote-book): A Writer’s Life|location=Lexington, Ky.|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|year=1998|page=181|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDx8j8vjbf4C&pg=PA181|isbn=978-0-8131-2095-9|passage=No one, reared in the folk ways of this particular subculture, growing up in it, understanding it, as he does, has spoken—not in its defense particularly, but from the 'inside.'
(quote-book) Then and Now|series=Law and Society|location=New Brunswick, N.J.|publisher=Transaction Publishers|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4128-5300-2|location2=Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Routledge|year2=2017|pages2=44–45|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljwrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|isbn2=978-1-4128-5300-2|passage=But what is at stake in the microscopic examination of folkways? Consider the following example: queuing at a checkout in supermarkets. The folkway governing this behavior could be summarized as "First come, first served." ... It's very likely that although the folkway (or social norm) "First come, first served" is used by shoppers to regulate their behavior, there are many circumstances in which it can be challenged.