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INTRODUCTION^LTHOUGH the title to this work to a very large extent correctly describes the contents, yet the argument leans less towards the explanation of a theory than it does towards the logical exposition of the results that must follow from the acceptance of certain fundamental assumptions,...

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITIONNew York City in 1970THE VIEW FROM 1970 the major part of Bejond the Melting Pot dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner's second term, that we wrote the chapters on the five major ethnic groups. (Glazer wrote the sections on the...

REFACEThe invitation to deliver the Karl Taylor Compton lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the spring of 1968 provided me with a welcome opportunity to make explicit and to develop at some length a thesis that has been central to much of my research, at first in organization...