William Graham Sumner was an American clergyman, social scientist, and neoclassical liberal. He taught social sciences at Yale University, where he held the nation's first professorship in sociology and became one of the most influential teachers... Wikipedia
Born: October 30, 1840, Paterson, NJ
Died: April 12, 1910 (age 69 years), Englewood, NJ
Education: Yale University, University of Oxford, University of Geneva, and more
Influenced: Thorstein Veblen, Irving Fisher, and Butler D. Shaffer
Parents: Thomas Sumner and Sarah Graham
Notable work: What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883); Folkways (1906)
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