Folkways
by William Graham Sumner
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About this eBook
- Author
- Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910
- Title
- Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Turgut Dincer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GT: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Manners and customs
- Subject
- Manners and customs
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24253
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24253
- Release Date
- January 11, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FOLKWAYS — A STUDY OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF USAGES, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, MORES, AND MORALS — WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER — GINN AND COMPANY — WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER — PREFACE — CONTENTS
- 2.FOLKWAYS — CHAPTER I — FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS OF THE FOLKWAYS AND OF THE MORES — CHAPTER II — CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MORES — CHAPTER III — THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — Tools, Arts, Language, Money — CHAPTER IV — LABOR, WEALTH — CHAPTER V — SOCIETAL SELECTION — CHAPTER VI — SLAVERY — CHAPTER VII — ABORTION, INFANTICIDE, KILLING THE OLD — CHAPTER VIII — CANNIBALISM — CHAPTER IX — SEX MORES — CHAPTER X — THE MARRIAGE INSTITUTION — CHAPTER XI — THE SOCIAL CODES — CHAPTER XII — INCEST — CHAPTER XIII — KINSHIP, BLOOD REVENGE, PRIMITIVE JUSTICE, PEACE UNIONS — CHAPTER XIV — UNCLEANNESS AND THE EVIL EYE — CHAPTER XV — THE MORES CAN MAKE ANYTHING RIGHT AND PREVENT CONDEMNATION OF ANYTHING — CHAPTER XVI — SACRAL HARLOTRY. CHILD SACRIFICE — CHAPTER XVII — POPULAR SPORTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND DRAMA — CHAPTER XVIII — ASCETICISM — CHAPTER XIX — EDUCATION, HISTORY — CHAPTER XX — LIFE POLICY. VIRTUE vs. SUCCESS — LIST OF BOOKS CITED — INDEX
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