Folkways

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In William Graham Sumner
…In his best known work, Folkways (1907), he stated that customs and morals originate in instinctive responses to the stimuli of hunger, sex, vanity, and fear. He emphasized the irrationality of folk customs and their resistance to reform. Sumner’s notes became the basis of The Science of Society, 4 vol.…
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