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Folkways

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State

Folkways are norms of routine and convention whose violation is treated as rude or odd rather than as wrong.

Show

Wearing beach clothes to a job interview breaks a folkway; onlookers are uncomfortable, and nothing further follows.

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Weak sanctions do not make folkways trivial — they organize most of daily conduct, even though violations are common and cheap.