Definition of "folkways" [folkways]

• Plural form of folkway. (noun)

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• "His knowledge of American idioms and folkways is perfect."
• "+ 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."
• "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."