William Lloyd Warner, US Anthropologist

Posted by Tel Asiado Oct 26, 2008

Today, October 26 (1898-1970), William Lloyd Warner is born, in Redlands, California. He was an influential sociologist and anthropologist known for studies on class structure.

Warner started his education at the University of California-Berkeley majoring in anthropology, then continued on to Harvard University for graduate school. He used anthropology to reseach on American Society's class structure. He divided social classes by three distinct groups he called lower, middle, and upper. He further subdivided each class into a lower and an upper.

For many years, Warner was a teachiing professor of anthropology and sociology in chicago and at Michigan State University for the rest of his life.

He wrote publications of his important works.

Source: www.Britannica.com