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Cultural Impacts of Virtual System on the Behavior of Religious Studies Students /305
Those acts might be positive and negative (in

terms of social criteria and religious perspectives)
and depending on that the person will get social

value. So, once we are clear with social behavior, it
is time to understand what is it's relationship with
customs and ideas.

Explaining “Custom” and “Idea”
We will review customs first. So again we will have
to look to the definition of “custom” and it is defined
in dictionary as “a traditional and widely accepted
way of behaving or doing something that is specific to
a particular society, place, or time”.
As it is clear from the definition, even though it is
“widely accepted” it is restricted to the society, place
and time, which means that ay particular custom will be
accepted in specific society, place or time.
So whatever is accepted in China is not necessarily
accepted in Russia or wise versa or that was accepted
500 years ago might not be accepted now.
Now we look at “idea” and it is defined as “a
thought or suggestion as to a possible course of
action”.
Basically idea is a cause of action (so the action is
an effect of the idea). It is not material and appear in
terms of thought, opinion or suggestion. So this is
important that we understand what is generating idea
and custom. Idea is something personal when custom
is social.