[ **up: [[Library of Congress Subject Headings]]** ] --- # LCSH’s ‘social Life and customs’ vs ‘manners and customs’ Assign **manners and customs** to general works of worldwide scope (customs, ways of living, etc) *not* limited to a particular group or group of people. Use the free-floating subdivision **–social life and customs** under regions, countries, cities, etc, for works on customs and habits of the people of those places. Do not subdivide **\[place]–social life and customs** by **–history**. Instead: > Further subdivide headings of the type **\[place]–social life and customs** by established chronological subdivisions or by the free-floating century subdivisions listed under **\[place]–social life and customs** in H 1140: **–16th \[17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, or 21st] century**.== Assign century subdivisions only when they do not conflict with established subdivisions for specific time periods. Establish new subdivisions for other significant periods, usually covering forty years or more, under headings of the type **\[place]–social life and customs** where there is sufficient material to warrant it.[^1] [^1]: Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division, ‘Social Life and Customs - H 2057’, *Subject Headings Manual*, June 2013, https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeSHM/H2057.pdf.