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A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways · 1906

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

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