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mores  

Definition

  • Now rather old-fashioned, this is a useful term for shared rules of behaviour that a society, community or social group strongly supports. In his Folkways (1906), William G. Sumner distinguished between mores and folkways. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Mores]

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