1st Edition

On Folkways and Mores William Graham Sumner Then and Now

Edited By Philip D. Manning Copyright 2015
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

245 Pages
by Routledge

William Graham Sumner is remembered primarily as an opponent of government intervention in social and economic issues. Focusing on Folkways (1906), this book examines Sumner's fundamental work as a comparative ethnographer with an appreciation for the rules and rituals that regulate everyday behavior. In Folkways , Sumner developed classifications and an array of sociological concepts that... Read more
1 Folkways as a Sociological Classic -Philip Manning2 William Graham Sumner's Proto-Sociology of Law -A. Javier Trevino3 William Graham Sumner's Proto-Symbolic Interactionism -Philip Manning4 Certain Folkways and Uncertain Mores -Jonathan B. Imber5 Folkways and the Rise of Modern Sociology -Howard G. Schneiderman6 Folkways
Chapter I, Fundamental Notions of the Folkways and of the Mores (1907) -William Graham Sumner
Chapter II, Characteristics of the Mores (1907) -William Graham Sumner
Chapter XV, The Mores Can Make Anything Right . . . (1907) -William Graham Sumner7 Religion and the Mores American Journal of Sociology (1910) -William Graham Sumner8 The Mores of the Present and the Future Yale Review (1909) -William Graham Sumner9 The Family and Social Change American Journal of Sociology (1909) -William Graham SumnerContributorsIndex

Biography

Philip D. Manning