SociologyThe men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them.William Graham SumnerFolkways · 1906★ 5.0
Essay · SociologyIt would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.William Graham SumnerSociology · 1881★ 4.3
SociologyA differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups.William Graham SumnerFolkways · 1906★ 4.3
SociologyThe mores come down to us from the past. Each individual is born into them as he is born into the atmosphere, and he does not reflect on them, or criticise them any more than a baby analyzes the atmosphere before he begins to breathe it.William Graham SumnerFolkways · 1906★ 3.4
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