LECTURE 2: FOLKWAYS AND MORES Flashcards
__________ is repeated behavior.
Culture
Not a product of rational reflection
Folkways
Handed down by tradition
Folkways
Admit of no exception
Folkways
Could change to adapt to new conditions
Folkways
What are the characteristics of folkways?
- Universal in the group
- Uniform
- Imperative
- Invariable
What are the sources of folkways?
- Tradition
- Imitation
- Authority
Some are based on _________ or by accident (e.g. superstitions).
pseudo-knowledge
Folkways with the connotation of what is right and true with the element of societal welfare embodied in them. ; “What ought to be done”
Mores
From which POV of mores is this? Character and behavior of the ideal/the man that you should be
the individual
From which POV of mores is this? Social rules which limit or govern our behavior
Society
Two kinds of Mores
Laws and Institutions
Formulated and defined, product of rational reflection, verification and criticism
Positive Laws
Common law from their customs and taboos
Customary Laws
Take shape in the mores
Crescive Institutions
From rational reflection; invented
Enacted Institutions
Two kinds of Laws
Positive and Customary
Two kinds of Institutions
Crescive and Enacted
Refers to the diversity of moral standards and values in different cultures and societies.
Ethical Relativism
_______ have no basis outside of the minds of those who prize them.
Values
The view of things in which one group is the center of everything and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it.
Ethnocentrism
Two forms of Ethical Relativism
Personal/Individual and Cultural Ethical
Expressions of the moral viewpoint/outlook and attitudes of individual persons.
Personal/Individual Ethical Relativism
Vary from society to society and that the basis of moral judgments lies in those social and cultural views.
Cultural Ethical Relativism
