A Quote by Kenneth L. Pike

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

Kenneth L. Pike

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Kenneth L. Pike
American - Sociologist
June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000

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