Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each grade of norm to its example.
- Folkway
- More
- Taboo
- Law
- Wearing pajamas to a lecture, odd looks
- Lying to your hosts, moral outrage
- Theft, the state prosecutes
- Cannibalism, the unthinkable
Hints
- The grades escalate from convention through morality to law.
- The severity of the sanction tells you which grade was crossed.
Show the answer
- Folkway → Wearing pajamas to a lecture, odd looks
- More → Lying to your hosts, moral outrage
- Taboo → Cannibalism, the unthinkable
- Law → Theft, the state prosecutes
Why
Norms escalate from convention to morality to horror to statute; the sanction tells you which grade you crossed.
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