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• biologism go
  use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior
  
• cooperation go
  the practice of cooperating
  
• featherbedding go
  the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required
  
• formalism go
  the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
  
• one-upmanship go
  the practice of keeping one jump ahead of a friend or competitor
  
• pluralism go
  the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
  
• symbolism, symbolization, symbolisation go
  the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
  
• modernism go
  practices typical of contemporary life or thought
  
• occult, occult arts go
  supernatural practices and techniques
  
• ornamentalism go
  the practice of ornamental display
  
• cannibalism go
  the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
  
• careerism go
  the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity
  
• custom, usage, usance go
  accepted or habitual practice
  
• habitude go
  habitual mode of behavior
  
• fashion go
  characteristic or habitual practice
  
• lobbyism go
  the practice of lobbying
  
• slavery, slaveholding go
  the practice of owning slaves
  
• peonage go
  the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged
  
• unwritten law go
  law based on customary behavior
  
• lynch law go
  the practice of punishing people by hanging without due process of law
  
• mistreatment go
  the practice of treating (someone or something) badly
  
• nonconformism go
  the practice of nonconformity
  
• calisthenics, callisthenics go
  the practice of calisthenic exercises
  
• popery, papism go
  offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church
  
• quotation go
  the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
  
• ritual go
  the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies
  
• ritualism go
  exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
  
• nudism, naturism go
  going without clothes as a social practice
  
• systematism go
  the habitual practice of systematization and classification
  
• transvestism, transvestitism, cross dressing go
  the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex