LECTURE 2: FOLKWAYS AND MORES

Question 1

Process of Development of Folkways
and Mores is by?

Answer 1

William Sumner

Question 2

To live → Groups (Concurrence) - most
expedient → All adapted the same → ____________ → Instincts → Folkways

Answer 2

Mass phenomenon

Question 3

Instincts were developed in connection to them

Answer 3

Habits and Customs

Question 4

__________ is repeated behavior.

Answer 4

Culture

Question 5

Notion of what is ‘right’

Answer 5

Folkways

Question 6

Not from rational reflection

Answer 6

Folkways

Question 7

Developed unconsciously like natural forces

Answer 7

Folkways

Question 8

HOW ARE FOLKWAYS FORMED?

Answer 8

• Developed from experience
• Handed down by tradition
• Admit of no exception
• Yet, change to adapt to new conditions

Question 9

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FOLKWAYS?

Answer 9

1. Universal in the group
2. Uniform
3. Imperative
4. Invariable

Question 10

WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF FOLKWAYS?

Answer 10

1. Tradition
2. Imitation
3. Authority

Question 11

Some folkways are based on _________ or by accident. (e.g. superstitions)

Answer 11

pseudo-knowledge

Question 12

Folkways with the connotation of what is right and true with the element of societal welfare embodied in them. ; “what ought to be done”

Answer 12

Mores

Question 13

From which POV of mores is this? Character and behavior of the ideal; of the man that he should be

Answer 13

Individual

Question 14

From which POV of mores is this? Social rules which limit or govern our behavior

Answer 14

Society

Question 15

Power of the mores (e.g. coercion of the individual to conform)

Answer 15

Social control

Question 16

The necessity for enforcement developed as society grows. What are the two types of mores?

Answer 16

Laws and Institutions

Question 17

Formulated and defined, product of rational reflection, verification and criticism

Answer 17

Positive Laws

Question 18

Common law from their customs and taboos

Answer 18

Customary Laws

Question 19

Take shape in the mores (e.g. religion, property, marriage)

Answer 19

Crescive Institutions

Question 20

From rational reflection; invented (e.g. banking system, land titling system)

Answer 20

Enacted Institutions

Question 21

Two kinds of Laws

Answer 21

Positive and Customary

Question 22

Two kinds of Institutions

Answer 22

Crescive and Enacted

Question 23

The “morals” of an age are never anything but the consonance between what is done and what the ____________________________.

Answer 23

mores of the age require

Question 24

A watered-down version passed in congress that would still be serving the interest of the big landlords

Answer 24

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Act

Question 25

Effective starting January 2018, is another example of something that may be legal but could be immoral

Answer 25

TRAIN Law

Question 26

Refers to the diversity of moral standards and values in different cultures and societies.

Answer 26

Ethical Relativism

Question 27

________ have no basis outside of the minds of those who prize them.

Answer 27

Values

Question 28

The view of things in which one group is the center of everything and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.

Answer 28

Ethnocentrism

Question 29

Two forms of Ethical Relativism

Answer 29

Personal/Individual and Cultural Ethical Relativism

Question 30

Ethical judgments/beliefs are expressions of the moral viewpoint/outlook and attitudes of individual persons

Answer 30

Personal/Individual Ethical Relativism

Question 31

Vary from society to society and that the basis of moral judgments lies in those social and cultural views

Answer 31

Cultural Ethical Relativism