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Who coined the term ‘mores’ to refer to norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance ?

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W.G. Sumner

William Graham Sumner, in Folkways (1906), distinguished folkways — customary ways of behaving whose violation brings mild disapproval — from mores, which are norms widely observed and believed to be essential to group welfare, carrying great moral significance and strong sanctions.

Sumner also gave the concepts of in-group and out-group and ethnocentrism. Bourdieu is known for habitus, Cooley for the looking-glass self and primary group, and Weber for social action and authority.

Hence, the answer is W.G. Sumner.

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