A Prayer for the Dying - Project, draft #1
Cultural focus: Taboo, Mores, Folkways
Social Mores are folkways. Folkways are patterns of conventional behavior in a society, norms that apply to everyday matters. They are the conventions and habits learned from childhood.
Social Mores are considered important to the welfare of society. Through practice or observance by people, as well as through the force of law, Mores often become part of a formal legal code.
Mores, specifically, refer to a type of norm. (Folkways, social mores, and taboos are all types of norms.) Violating of a taboo evokes feelings of disgust because a taboo is such a strongly held norm.
For example: Picking your nose or wiping your hands on a tablecloth is a violation of a folkway, not a taboo. It might be gross, but it's not important enough to bring society’s law down on you.
On the other hand, incest and cannibalism violate taboos (although not in all societies, these taboos are common). If you have sexual intercourse with your sister, eat her body, then wipe your hands on a tablecloth, you've just broken several taboos and a folkway.
Murder and rape typically violate mores. These are against the law in our society.
When in the lab: research a variety of taboos, mores, and folkways. Use these webengines (or the library) to help you find accurate information:
Worldbookonline.com
U=sch74
P=csd74
Search.epnet.com
magazine articles
U=schoolofarts
P=schoolofarts
http://www.newsbank.com
local and other newspapers
U=rrlc151
P= rrlc151
Take notes. When you have decided on a particular taboo or more, write a 1 page outline of the story you would like to tell. Call this outline draft 1.
Social Mores are folkways. Folkways are patterns of conventional behavior in a society, norms that apply to everyday matters. They are the conventions and habits learned from childhood.
Social Mores are considered important to the welfare of society. Through practice or observance by people, as well as through the force of law, Mores often become part of a formal legal code.
Mores, specifically, refer to a type of norm. (Folkways, social mores, and taboos are all types of norms.) Violating of a taboo evokes feelings of disgust because a taboo is such a strongly held norm.
For example: Picking your nose or wiping your hands on a tablecloth is a violation of a folkway, not a taboo. It might be gross, but it's not important enough to bring society’s law down on you.
On the other hand, incest and cannibalism violate taboos (although not in all societies, these taboos are common). If you have sexual intercourse with your sister, eat her body, then wipe your hands on a tablecloth, you've just broken several taboos and a folkway.
Murder and rape typically violate mores. These are against the law in our society.
When in the lab: research a variety of taboos, mores, and folkways. Use these webengines (or the library) to help you find accurate information:
Worldbookonline.com
U=sch74
P=csd74
Search.epnet.com
magazine articles
U=schoolofarts
P=schoolofarts
http://www.newsbank.com
local and other newspapers
U=rrlc151
P= rrlc151
Take notes. When you have decided on a particular taboo or more, write a 1 page outline of the story you would like to tell. Call this outline draft 1.
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