The most important category of norms for maintaining social order are ?
Correct answer: B. mores
- A. folkways
- B. mores
- C. customs
- D. traditions
Explanation
Mores are norms regarded as essential to a society's moral welfare, so violations attract stronger disapproval and help maintain social order. Folkways mainly govern ordinary etiquette and carry weaker sanctions.
Report an error
The more specific you are, the faster it gets fixed. A source beats an opinion.
Prefer email? [email protected]
About Microeconomics
Individual consumers, firms and markets are examined through demand and supply, elasticity, consumer choice, production, costs, revenue and the determination of prices and output. The topic also covers market structures such as perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly, plus market failure, externalities and the distinction between microeconomic decisions and economy-wide outcomes.
Practise Microeconomics
1,742 free Microeconomics MCQs from Economics, each with the correct answer and an explanation. Unlimited attempts, no account needed.
Discussion
Stuck on an option, or know a faster way to get there? Ask or explain it here.
No comments yet. Be the first to explain this one.
Exams that ask Economics questions like this
Economics is on 3 papers prepared for on TestUstad, and all of them draw the same bank, so this question is worth knowing for every one of them.
More Microeconomics questions
Which of the following is an example of a culture complex ?
Cultural relativity ideally implies ?
Culture is the basis of______________?
The development of modern culture is CHIEFLY dependent upon ?
The double standard in the behavior of people in society is acknowledged by the existence of a(n)?
Symbolic interaction ism functionalism conflict feminism exchange are_____________?