Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National OriginsThe first full-scale sociological survey of the assimilation of minorities in America, this classic work presents significant conclusions about the problems of prejudice and discrimination in America and offers positive suggestions for the achievement of a healthy balance among societal, subgroup, and individual needs. |
Contents
| 3 | |
2 The Subsociety and the Subculture | 19 |
3 The Nature of Assimilation | 60 |
Part I Introduction and AngloConformity | 84 |
Part II The Melting Pot | 115 |
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acculturation affiliation agencies Ameri American Jews American society Anglo-conformity Anglo-Saxon cent century Chapter church cities civic clubs concept contacts core society cultural assimilation cultural patterns cultural pluralism degree differences Digby Baltzell discussion Eastern English ethclass ethnic communality ethnic group ethnic subsociety European Fichter German goal group relations Harper and Brothers heritage Hollingshead immigrants individual institutions intermarriage Irish Italian Jewish communal Jews Judaism Kallen Lenski marriage melting pot minority group munal Nathan Glazer national origins national origins formula native Negro community organizations Oscar Handlin parochial school participation particular persons political population prejudice and discrimination primary group relationships problems race racial religion religious role separate social class social cliques social structure sociological status structural assimilation subcommunity subculture subsociety Sylvanians term tion tional tural United upper class urban values variables various white Catholics white Protestant York