Wiliiam Graham Sumner

Influential sociologist and author

William Graham Sumner was a British-American sociologist, philosopher, and statistician. He is considered one of the founders of the field of sociology and was a prominent figure in the development of modern sociology. Sumner was born in 1840 in London, England, and studied at the University of London. He later moved to the United States, where he became a professor at Cornell University and later at Yale University....