About the Author
Morris Ginsberg (1889-1970) was a British sociologist who believed that the study of sociology carried with it a moral imperative to help improve society. The president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943, he went on to found and become the first President of the British Sociological Association. His best-known works include The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples (1915), Sociology (1934), and Reason and Unreason in Society (1947).
