The Polish Peasant In Europe And America Monograph Of An Immigrant Group

Author : William I. Thomas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332063659
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, Vol. 1 written by William I. Thomas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, Vol. 1: Monograph of an Immigrant Group Among the questions included in the as yet relatively unformulated field of social science (without reference to logical order) are: immigration; racial prejudice; cultural assimilation; the comparative mental and moral worth of races and nationalities; crime, alcoholism, vagabondage, and other forms of anti-social behavior; nationalism and internationalism; democracy and class-hierarchization; effi ciency and happiness, particularly as functions of the rela tion of the individual to the social framework containing Q's activities; the rate of individualization possi disorganization; the difference between unreflective social cohesion brought about by tradition, and reflective social cc-operation brought about by rational selection of common ends and means; the introduction of new and desirable attitudes and values without recourse to the way of revolu tion; and, more generally, the determination of the most general and particular laws of social reality, preliminary to the introduction of a social control'as satisfactory, or as increasingly satisfactory, as is our control of the material world, resulting from the study of the laws of physical reality. Now we are ourselves primarily interested in these prob lems, but we are convinced of the necessity of approaching these and other social problems by isolating given societies and studying them, first, in the totality of their objective complexity, and thwtively. The present study was not, in fact, undertaken exclusively or even primarily as an expression of interest in the Polish peasant (although our selection of this society was influenced by the question of immigration and by other considerations named below. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.