WARNER, WILLIAM LLOYD


Meaning of WARNER, WILLIAM LLOYD in English

born Oct. 26, 1898, Redlands, Calif., U.S.

died May 23, 1970, Chicago, Ill.

U.S. sociologist and anthropologist.

He studied with Alfred L. Kroeber and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and later taught at the universities of Chicago and Michigan. His studies of the American class system have been widely influential. In the late 1930s he produced a five-volume study of Newburyport, Mass.; his other books include A Black Civilization (1937), The Social Life of a Modern Community (1941), and The Living and the Dead (1959).

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