Practice mode Social Groups

Which sociologist, writing in 1906, observed that people distinguish between members of their own group (the in-group) and everyone else (the out-group)?

Correct answer B. William Graham Sumner

Explanation

William Graham Sumner introduced the terms in-group and out-group in his 1906 book Folkways, where he also discussed ethnocentrism.

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