On the Utilitarian of Folk Belief-in the Perspective of Methodology

There was no doubt that Folk Belief was utilitarian in academia,which was supposed to be the mainly topic of this paper.Methodologically,the static study focused on the utilitarian disposition of individual level was attempted to be taken place by the historical analysis that laid particular emphasis on the societal level;theoretically,in the perspective of culture lag theory,a reasonable hypothesis of Folk Belief' s changing was presented.It was also pointed out that the utilitarian of Folk Belief was faded,with the societal factors,such as tradition and symbolic meaning of community,appearing during the changing of folk belief based on two field researches.