It was 1883 and a little-known social science professor at Yale named William Graham Sumner, who specialized in free markets and laissez-faire economics, would soon become more widely known thanks to ...

A barrel-chested, wing-collared young Yale instructor glared sternly at his pupils and in a voice that rang like an anvil began to lecture to his first class. He was William Graham Sumner. “He broke ...

Founded in 1975, Population and Development Review seeks to advance knowledge of the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic development and provides a forum for discussion of related ...

I SHOULD say at the outset, perhaps, that my title bears no relation to Mr. Norman Hall’s striking story in the March Atlantic. My mind reverts to the year 1883, when Professor William Graham Sumner, ...

THE name of William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) is so comparatively little known in Great Britain, except perhaps as the author of “Folkways”, that it comes as something of a surprise to discover that ...

A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. By Prof. William Graham Sumner. Pp. vii + 692. (New York: Dover Publications ...