William g sumner biography books
William graham sumner folkways Sumner wrote extensively on the social sciences, penning numerous books and essays on ethics, American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology.
William Graham Sumner was an William Graham Sumner was a U.S. sociologist and economist, prolific publicist of Social Darwinism. Like the British philosopher Herbert Spencer, Sumner, who taught at Yale from to , expounded in many essays his firm belief in laissez-faire, individual liberty, and the innate inequalities.
William Graham Sumner was a In his best-known encyclopedic book Folkways (), Sumner added the terms “folkways” and “mores” to the vocabularies of American sociologists. He believed that these were the most powerful influences on human behavior, even when irrational.