| William Graham Sumner - 1906 - 716 pages
...around their feet, on account of trousers.1 For our present purpose the most important fact is that ethnocentrism leads a people to exaggerate and intensify...differentiates them from others. It therefore strengthens the folkways. 16. Illustrations of ethnocentrism. The Papuans on New Guinea are broken up into village... | |
| William Graham Sumner - 1906 - 722 pages
...important fact is that ethnocentrism I leads a people to exaggerate and intensify everything in their 1 / own folkways which is peculiar and which differentiates...' "•" from others. It therefore strengthens the folkways. 16. Illustrations of ethnocentrism. The Papuans on New Guinea are broken up into village... | |
| Albert Galloway Keller - 1915 - 372 pages
...'Pig-eater,' 'cow-eater,' 'uncircumcised,' 'jabberers,' are epithets of contempt and abomination." A galaxy of such terms could be gathered in our own...from others. It therefore strengthens the mores." 1 It is to be noted that the differences which catch the eye and are thus held up to contempt are often... | |
| Albert Galloway Keller - 1915 - 360 pages
...in our own society and time, as, eg, bog-trotter, dago, sheeny, wop, hunkie, bohunk, guinea, boche. These and other terms have been invented to mark the...from others. It therefore strengthens the mores." l It is to be noted that the differences which catch the eye and are thus held up to contempt are often... | |
| Albert Galloway Keller - 1915 - 364 pages
...own society and time, as, eg, bog-trotter, dago, sheeny, griner, hunkie, bohunk, guinea, wdpXThese and other terms have been invented to mark the exponents...from others. It therefore strengthens the mores." 1 It is to be noted that the differences which catch the eye and are thus held up to contempt are often... | |
| 1919 - 768 pages
...selected the word mores, a Latin word having a little wider significance, as equivalent for the Greek Was. About the word mores the facts of Sumner's social...people take the attitude, so graphically portrayed in Huckleberry Finn, that a human being should talk in the way human beings were meant to talk, ie, as... | |
| Jerome Davis, Harry Elmer Barnes - 1927 - 964 pages
...epithets of contempt and abomination. . . . For our present purpose the most important fact is that ethnocentrism leads a people to exaggerate and intensify...peculiar and which differentiates them from others." 1 Further, each culture group tends to regard those who differ from itself as of another class. In... | |
| Kimball Young - 1927 - 884 pages
...around their feet, on account of trousers. For our present purpose the most important fact is that ethnocentrism leads a people to exaggerate and intensify...differentiates them from others. It therefore strengthens the folkways. When Caribs were asked whence they came, they answered, "We alone are people." The meaning... | |
| Jay Newman, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1989 - 249 pages
...ones, and if it observes that other groups have other folkways, these excite its scorn." Moreover, "ethnocentrism leads a people to exaggerate and intensify...everything in their own folkways which is peculiar and differentiates them from others. It therefore strengthens the folkways."97 Sumner also sees competition,... | |
| Milton Kleg - 1993 - 334 pages
...other folkways, these excite its scorn. . . . For our present purpose the most important fact is that ethnocentrism leads a people to exaggerate and intensify...differentiates them from others. It therefore strengthens the folkways.19 If ethnocentrism is a foundation of social cohesiveness and source of ingroup-outgroup... | |
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