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William Graham Sumner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was the leading American advocate of a free-trade industrial society, which is what he believed the socialists meant by "capitalism." He graduated from Yale University in 1863, where he had been a member of Skull & Bones. Later he became a professor of sociology at Yale. As a sociologist, his major accomplishments were developing the concepts of diffusion, folkways, and ethnocentrism. ..." |
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| 30 Oct 1840, in Paterson, New Jersey |
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| 12 Apr 1910, in Englewood, New Jersey |
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