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  2. Etiquette - Wikipedia

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    Social manners are in three categories: (i) manners of hygiene, (ii) manners of courtesy, and (iii) manners of cultural norm. Each category accounts for an aspect of the functional role that manners play in a society. The categories of manners are based upon the social outcome of behaviour, rather than upon the personal motivation of the behaviour.

  3. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of ...

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    Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. is a short essay written in 1751 by American polymath Benjamin Franklin. [1] It was circulated by Franklin in manuscript to his circle of friends, but in 1755 it was published as an addendum in a Boston pamphlet on another subject. [2]

  4. How to Observe Morals and Manners - Wikipedia

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    How to Observe Morals and Manners is a sociological treatise on methods of observing manners and morals written by Harriet Martineau in 1837–8 after a tour of America. [1] She stated that she wasn't looking for fodder for a book, but also privately remarked that "I am tired of being kept floundering among the details which are all a Hall and a Trollope (writer of Domestic Manners of the ...

  5. Letters and Notes on the Customs and Manners of the North ...

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    Volume 1 is 264 pages and contains 31 letters. The first letter serves as an introduction to Catlin’s life, setting up the writings on his travels. He then travels to the mouth of the Yellowstone River and then to a Mandan village. He writes several letters about the Mandan village before writing about his travels to a Minataree village.

  6. Jewish customs of etiquette - Wikipedia

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    Jewish customs of etiquette, known simply as Derekh Eretz (Hebrew: דרך ארץ, lit. ' way of the land '), [a] or what is a Hebrew idiom used to describe etiquette, is understood as the order and manner of conduct of man in the presence of other men; [1] [2] being a set of social norms drawn from the world of human interactions.

  7. Courtesy book - Wikipedia

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    A courtesy book (also book of manners) was a didactic manual of knowledge for courtiers to handle matters of etiquette, socially acceptable behaviour, and personal morals, with an especial emphasis upon life in a royal court; the genre of courtesy literature dates from the 13th century.

  8. The Conduct of Life - Wikipedia

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    Here, manners are turned into a democratic means, which can transcend biological as well as social inequalities. At the same time, however, the selective function of manners operating in a society that "resists and sneers at you; or quietly drops you" if you do not follow its rules is addressed. Only the true genius has the potential to ...

  9. The Lord Chandos Letter - Wikipedia

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    The Lord Chandos Letter stands in stark contrast to Hofmannsthal's early works and poetry. He was a poet who had a command over language in his early poetry centered on the “inner self” [2] that had characterized his time as a member of the elite literary circle Young Vienna ("Jung-Wien").