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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Graham Sumner |
ISBN: | 0486424960 9780486424965 |
OCLC Number: | 49493002 |
Notes: | Originally published: Boston : Folkways: a study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals : Ginn, 1907. |
Description: | vii, 692 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Fundamental notions of the folkways and of the mores -- Characteristics of the mores -- The struggle for existence -- Labor, wealth -- Societal selection -- Slavery -- Abortion, infanticide, killing the old -- Cannibalism -- Sex mores -- The marriage institution -- The social codes -- Incest -- Kinship, blood revenge, primitive justice, peace unions -- Uncleanness and the evil eye -- The mores can make anything right and prevent condemnation of anything -- Sacral harlotry, child sacrifice -- Popular sports, exhibitions, drama -- Asceticism -- Education, history -- Life policy, virtue vs. success. |
Responsibility: | William Graham Sumner. |
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