LECTURE 2: FOLKWAYS AND MORES

Question 1

__________ is repeated behavior.

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Not a product of rational reflection

Answer 2

Folkways

Question 3

Handed down by tradition

Answer 3

Folkways

Question 4

Admit of no exception

Answer 4

Folkways

Question 5

Could change to adapt to new conditions

Answer 5

Folkways

Question 6

What are the characteristics of folkways?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What are the sources of folkways?

Answer 7

1. Tradition
2. Imitation
3. Authority

Question 8

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

Answer 8

pseudo-knowledge

Question 9

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 9

Mores

Question 10

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

Answer 10

the individual

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Society

Question 12

Two kinds of Mores

Answer 12

Laws and Institutions

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Positive Laws

Question 14

Common law from their customs and taboos

Answer 14

Customary Laws

Question 15

Take shape in the mores

Answer 15

Crescive Institutions

Question 16

From rational reflection; invented

Answer 16

Enacted Institutions

Question 17

Two kinds of Laws

Answer 17

Positive and Customary

Question 18

Two kinds of Institutions

Answer 18

Crescive and Enacted

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Ethical Relativism

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Values

Question 21

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 21

Ethnocentrism

Question 22

Two forms of Ethical Relativism

Answer 22

Personal/Individual and Cultural Ethical

Question 23

Expressions of the moral viewpoint/outlook and attitudes of individual persons.

Answer 23

Personal/Individual Ethical Relativism

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Cultural Ethical Relativism