Sumner, William Graham (1840-1910)
American sociologist and economist, was born at Paterson, New Jersey. Following his graduation from Yale University, he was ordained as a Protestant Episcopal minister, but , after preaching until 1872, he was made professor of political and social science at Yale University.
His trenchant lectures and writings exercised much influence in supporting the view that individual initiative free of all governmental action in economic life conduces to the best social order. As a sociologist, he did much to clear the way for the study of the social order as a complex of customs. His Folkways became s standard text.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Pages 1982 & 1983.
You can visit the memorial page for William Graham Sumner.
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