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Social Behavior and Personality: Contributions of W. I. Thomas to Theory and Social Research » Read Now
by Edmund H. Volkart. 338 pgs.

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...WILLIAM ISAAC THOMAS 1863-1947 SOCIAL BEHAVIOR...culture-lag" hypothesis, in William F. Ogburn, Social Change...1928 . Ten years earlier Thomas had written: "The human...
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The Thomas Theorem and the Matthew Effect, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Robert K. Merton. 44 pgs.

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...actually written by William I. Thomas and Dorothy Swaine...became known that Isaac Newton once made...was written by both William I. Thomas and Dorothy Swaine...first...
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Source Book for Social Psychology (1927) (Includes essays written by William Isaac Thomas in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Kimball Young. 878 pgs.

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Sociological Theory: Present-Day Sociology from the Past (1956) (Includes articles written by William Isaac Thomas in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Edgar F. Borgatta, Henry J. Meyer. 546 pgs.

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...Regulation of the Wishes BY WILLIAM I. THOMAS 404 Control and Attention BY WILLIAM I. THOMAS 408 Some Aspects...Ordering and Forbidding BY WILLIAM I. THOMAS AND FLORIAN...
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Race Prejudice and Discrimination: Readings in Intergroup Relations in the United States (1951) ("The Psychology of Race-Prejudice" by William I. Thomas begins on p. 462) » Read Now
by Arnold M. Rose. 620 pgs.

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Methods in Social Science: A Case Book (1931) ("The Sociological Methods of William Graham Sumner, and of William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki" begins on p. 154) » Read Now
by Stuart A. Rice. 840 pgs.

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American Social Psychology: Its Origins, Development, and European Background ("William I. Thomas (1863), Ellsworth Faris (1874), and Others Associated with Their Social-Psychological Viewpoints" begins on p. 351) » Read Now
by Fay Berger Karpf. 484 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library
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Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings ("Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant" by William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki" begins on p. 248) » Read Now
by Charles Lemert. 688 pgs.

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..."A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, & strikingly inclusive collection that aims to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the actual dialogue of contemporary...
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Criteria for the Life History, with Analyses of Six Notable Documents (1949) (Chap. VI "The Criteria Applied: 'Life-Record of an Immigrant,' from The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, by W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki") » Read Now
by John Dollard. 300 pgs.

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The Development of Sociology (1936) (Chap. XXIV "The Polish Peasant") » Read Now
by Floyd Nelson House. 456 pgs.

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...ADMINISTRATOR Thomas-- PRIMITIVE BEHAVIOR...XXIII. THE SOCIOLOGY OF WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER 273...the Utopia of Sir Thomas More is quite the reverse...incidentally. 2...
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Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America ("An America That Would Not Melt: Polish Peasants, the Negro Problem, and the Oriental" begins on p. 38) » Read Now
by Henry Yu. 253 pgs.

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What is the difference between an "Oriental" and an "Asian American"? In this fascinating study, Henry Yu explains how Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans came to be lumped together as "Orientals" in the United States, and how this eventually led to their understanding of themselves as Asian...
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What is the difference between an "Oriental" and an "Asian American"? In this fascinating study, Henry Yu explains how Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans came to be lumped together as "Orientals" in the United States, and how this eventually led to their understanding of themselves as Asian Americans. Yu tells the story of how white American intellectuals from the University of Chicago sought out Americans of Chinese and Japanese ancestry. Detailing how they together constructed theories about an exotic Orient completely opposite from American culture, Yu describes the history of American Orientalism and shows how it helped to produce modern notions of race and culture. The ideas that arose from studying Orientals, connected by social scientists with theories about African Americans and white European immigrants, inform the way we understand the race in America today. Yu uses poignant vignettes to illustrate the difficult and often ironic positions of intellectuals of colour, providing a glimpse into what W.E.B. Dubois called the "double consciousness" of racial minorities in the United States. He goes on to discuss how cultural theory has become confused with anti-racism, and how a colourblind denial of race has failed to free us from racism. His book is one of the first to describe how crucial Asian Americans have been in the shaping of theories of race and culture, helping to move us away from the black/white paradigm of race relations. Yu explains why an Asian American can be a fourth-generation citizen of the United States and yet still be considered a foreigner. He also details how theories about Asians as a "model minority" were created in the aftermath of Japanese American internment, and how Asian Americans have been pitted politically against African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
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The Invention of Ethnicity (Discussion of William Isaac Thomas begins on p. 124) » Read Now
by Werner Sollors. 294 pgs.

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This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger...
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This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition. It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents: On the Fourth of July in Sitka, Ishmael Reed. Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses", Alide Cagidemetrio. Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, Kathleen Conzen. Defining the Race, 1890-1930, Judith Stein. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, Mary Dearborn. Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale, Carla Cappeti. Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics, William Boelhower. Blood in the Market Place: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives, Thomas Ferraro. Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray. Is Ethnicity Obsolete, Ishmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong, and Bob Callahan.
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Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 (Discussion of William Isaac Thomas begins on p. 81) » Read Now
by Robert M. Crunden. 304 pgs.

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Ethnicity, Pluralism, and Race: Race Relations Theory in America before Myrdal (Discussion of William Isaac Thomas begins on p. 15) » Read Now
by R. Fred Wacker. 114 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...is like that of W. I. Thomas, H. A. Miller, and...criticism is that of Isaac Berkson, who published...determined. 26 Isaac Berksons criticism of...Ernest W. Burgess, "...