Abstract
IN TEXTS in psychology and sociology, there appears to be unabated confusion in the use of such terms as mores, morals, moral code, morality, and moral behavior. At times related to such other terms as folkways, customs, ways, practices, and social habits, the description and the use of the terms all too frequently lack as great precision as might be obtainable without doing violence to the facts and generalizations so labeled. From time to time, writers who have been bothered by this vagueness have either sought to clarify W. G. Sumner's2 influential folkways-mores theory3 or have rejected or
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