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  1. Sumner, William Graham Sumnernoun

    United States sociologist (1840-1910)

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  1. William Graham Sumner

    William Graham Sumner was an American academic and "held the first professorship in sociology" at Yale College. For many years he had a reputation as one of the most influential teachers there. He was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology. He is credited with introducing the term "ethnocentrism," a term intended to identify imperialists' chief means of justification, in his book Folkways. Sumner is often seen as a proto-libertarian. He was also the first to teach a course entitled "Sociology". Sumner was a critic of natural rights, famously arguing

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    The numerical value of William Graham Sumner in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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    The numerical value of William Graham Sumner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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