Download e-book for kindle: On Folkways and Mores: William Graham Sumner Then and Now by Philip D. Manning

By Philip D. Manning

ISBN-10: 1138529133

ISBN-13: 9781138529137

ISBN-10: 1412853001

ISBN-13: 9781412853002

William Graham Sumner is remembered essentially as an opponent of presidency intervention in social and fiscal matters. targeting Folkways (1906), this publication examines Sumner's primary paintings as a comparative ethnographer with an appreciation for the foundations and rituals that control daily behavior.In Folkways, Sumner constructed classifications and an array of sociological suggestions that proceed to persuade the self-discipline this day. This new ebook offers key excerpts from Folkways in addition to 3 of Sumner's different vintage essays. it is usually 5 unique essays via modern experts that designate and discover Sumner's significance and impression. via linking Sumner's paintings to modern learn approximately social regulate, the sociology of legislation, and sociological concept, those new essays be certain his prestige as a foundational philosopher within the field.Sumner deals a chic conceptual schema with which to investigate the ethical codes of in- and out-groups. His vast use of comparative anthropological facts demonstrates a qualitative method which can simply be utilized to the research of up to date American society. This quantity contains contributions by way of Jonathan B. Imber, Howard G. Schneiderman, and A. Javier Trevino.

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