etiquette

Scope Note

Greetings and salutations; obeisances; compliments; concept of courtesy; general patterns of etiquette in eating, drinking, smoking, visiting, and travel; deference to status superiors; noblesse oblige; breaches of etiquette and the resulting social sanctions; etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 570 interpersonal relations

Related Terms

• 264 eating
• 270 drink and drugs
• 516 postures
• 521 conversation
• 526 athletic sports
• 562 gender status
• 578 ingroup antagonisms
• 600 kinship
• 626 social control
• 644 executive household
• 648 external relations
• 782 prayers and sacrifices
• 788 ritual
• 830 sex
• 867 transmission of cultural norms
• 888 status and treatment of the aged