Personality Structure and Nazi Fiction

Abstract

of social process, and on other has contributed to strength of essentially totalitarian, Paretian type of theory of elite. Although Sumner's moral relativism in its broad aspects was hardly an original contribution, his massive accumulation of data bolstering his assertion that the mores can make anything right, and his analysis of in-group and out-group, are specific contributions in this realm which bear his stamp. Sociology and anthropology, as has been suggested, have found no more adequate term than folkway to describe that class of data which essentially constitutes subject-matter of science of culture. Students of social institutions are indebted to him for his statement of conceptstructure theory of social organization, and for his emphasis upon strain toward consistency in mores. Nor, finally, can one study his system without appreciating importance of his essentially Marxian interpretation of history. If 1945 were to hand down a verdict on William Graham Sumner, it might fairly say that his mistaken dogmas may in large part be discounted, for they were but borrowings from a political and economic philosophy to which he added little, either in ideas or in power to survive. On other hand, a significant number of his sociological contributions are original, have already given an impetus anid a broadened view to science of society beyond realization of his beneficiaries, and have raised questions which have yet to be fully answered.