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Warner, W(illiam) Lloyd

(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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