Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and MoralsSumner, William Graham
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Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
Sumner, William Graham
Manners and customs
Social selection by the mores.--Instrumentalities of
suggestion.--Symbols, pictures, etc.--Apparatus of
suggestion.--Watchwords, catchwords.--"Slave," "democracy."--
Epithets.--Phrases.--Pathos.--Pathos is unfavorable to
truth.--Analysis and verification as tests.--Humanity.--
Selection by distinction.--Aristocracies.--Fashion.--
Conventionalization.--Uncivilized fashions.--Ideals of
beauty.--Fashion in other things than dress.--Miscellaneous
fashions.--All deformations by fashion are irrational.--Satires
on fashion.--Fashion in faiths and ideals.--Fashion is not
trivial, not subject to argument.--Remoter effects of fashion.--
Slang and expletives.--Poses, fads, and cant.--Illustrations.--
Heroes, scapegoats, and butts.--Caricature.--Relation of fads,
etc., to mores.--Ideals.--Ideals of beauty.--The
man-as-he-should-be.--The standard type of man.--Who does the
thinking?--The gentleman.--Standards set by taboos.--Crimes.--
Criminal law.--Mass phenomena of fear and hope.--Manias,
delusions.--Monstrous mass phenomena.--Gregariousness in the
Middle Ages.--The mendicant orders.--Other mendicants.--
Popular mania for poverty and beggary.--Delusions.--Manias and
suggestion.--Power of the crowd over the individual.--
Discipline by pain.--The mediaeval church operated societal
selection.--The mediaeval church.--Sacerdotal celibacy.--The
masses wanted clerical celibacy.--Abelard.--The selection of
sacerdotal celibacy.--How the church operated selection.--Mores
and morals; social code.--Orthodoxy; treatment of dissent;
selection by torture.--Execution by burning.--Burning in North
American colonies.--Solidarity in penalty for fault of one.--
Torture in the ancient states.--Torture in the Roman empire.--
Jewish and Christian universality; who persecutes whom?--The
ordeal.--Irrationality of torture.--Inquisitorial procedure
from Roman law.--Bishops as inquisitors.--Definition of
heretic.--The Albigenses.--Persecution was popular.--Theory of
persecution.--Duties laid on the civil authority.--Public
opinion as to the burning of heretics.--The shares of the church
and the masses.--The church uses its power for selfish
aggrandizement.--The inquisition took shape slowly.--Frederick
II and his code.--Formative legislation.--Dungeons.--The
yellow crosses.--Confiscation.--Operation of the inquisition.--
Success of the inquisition.--Torture in civil and ecclesiastical
trials.--The selection accomplished.--Torture in England.--The
Spanish inquisition.--The inquisition in Venice.--The use of
the inquisition for political and personal purposes.--Stages of
the selection by murder.
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