These views usually prove to be a bundle of largely unexamined and orally-transmitted tags, enshrining generalizations, prejudices, and half-truths

In general most working-class people are non-political and non-metaphysical in their outlook. The important things in life so far as they can see, are other things. They may appear to have views on general matters - on religion, on politics, and so on - but these views usually prove to be a bundle of largely unexamined and orally-transmitted tags, enshrining generalizations, prejudices, and half-truths, and elevated by epigrammatic phrasing into the status of maxims. As I remarked earlier, these are often contradictory of each other; but are not thought about, not intellectually considered.  

R. Hoggart, The uses of literacy (1957), 86