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Folkways
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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folkways
coined 1907 in book of the same name by U.S. sociologist William Graham Sumner 18401910), who also is credited with ethnocentrism, found in the same book.
EXPANDFolkways are habits of the individual and customs of the society which arise from efforts to satisfy needs. ... Then they become regulative for succeeding generations and take on the character of a social force. [Sumner, Folkways]
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