Folkway

Quick meaning: Folkway is a noun meaning (often in the plural) A belief or custom common to members of a culture or society.

Meaning

(often in the plural) A belief or custom common to members of a culture or society.

Example Sentences

It [a social institution] is a folkway, always new yet ever old, directive and responsive, a spur to and a check upon change, a creature of means and a master of ends.

By the time you are grown up and can consider the folk-ways of your childhood with detached impersonality, you have forgotten what was of most value. Rarely will a child tell frankly of his lore, and rarely can an adult remember.

For years I've hoped that some enterprising editor would hire a hillbilly to go to the city and write his impressions of the quaint folkways of the cliff dwellers. I'd do it myself, cheap, and I've got a good questionnaire tucked away in readiness.

At least since the time of Woodrow Wilson, studies of Congress have acknowledged the great importance of committee action in the legislative process. Stated in terms of legislative folkways, congressmen are expected to specialize in given subjects and then to rely on each other's specialized knowledge in areas that are not within their particular competence.

Word Forms

• folkways
• folk way
• folk-way

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include folk way, folklife, folk, folk-lore, gemeinschaft, freet.

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