Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status: A Theoretical Analysis of Their Interrelationship

by Charles Vert Willie

Overview

Providing an adequate conceptual apparatus for the explanation and interpretation of behavior associated with race, ethinicity, and socioeconomic status is the goal of this book. Empirical research findings and their theoretical analysis are linked.
E. Franklin Frazier, recognized minorities as mirrors of their society. He hypothesized that study of their adaptations would provide a clearer understanding of the relation of human motivation to culture. Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status confirms the Frazier hypothesis and extracts from studies of blacks and other racial and ethnic minority populations propositions applicable to majority as well as minority groups. Theses studies of intergroup relations were conducted during the past 25 years and provide a perspective on changing patterns of contact between cultural gropus in the United States.
Adaptations associated with race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are analyzed from the perspective of sociology as a science of humanity. Historical trends as well as contemporary situations are considered; social, psychological, and geographical factors are researched as contextual variables in intergroup relations.
By analyzing demographic data pertaining to mortality, disease, delinquency, and poverty, the varying contributions to the human condition of individual attributes, group customs, and institutional regulations are ascertained. Institutional and community studies illuminate the prides, fears, and prejudices of dominant and subdominant groups, particularly with reference to racial and ethnic relations in education. Also identified in these studies are the rights and responsibilities of such groups toward each other in social interaction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780930390471
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/1983
Pages:	293
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status as Manifestations of the Human Condition Part 2 Demographic Studies Ecologicsl Analysis: Individuals, Groups, and Their Environments Social Problems Analysis: Disease, Mortality, Delinquency, Poverty Chapter 3 Land Elevation, Age of Dwelling Structure, and REsidential Stratification Chapter 4 Age Status and Residential Stratification Chapter 5 The Ethnic Areas of Syracuse, New York Chapter 6 Theoretical Implications: Individuals, Groups, and Their Environments Chapter 7 The President's Commission on Mental Health— A Minority Report on Minorities Chapter 8 Racial, Ethnic, and Income Factors in the Epidemiology of Neonatal Mortality Chapter 9 Race and Delinquency Chapter 10 The Relative Contribution of Family Status and Economic Status to Juvenile Delinquency Chapter 11 Two Men and Their Families: A Story of Low-Income Earners in the Nation's Capital and Their Need for Intercessors Chapter 12 Intergenerational Problems of Poverty for Blacks and for Whites Chapter 13 Theoretical Implications: Disease, Mortality, Delinquency, and Poverty Part 14 Institutional and Community Studies Family, School, and Community: Stability and Change Chapter 15 A National Population Policy and the Fear of Racial Genocide Chapter 16 Dominance in the Family: The Black and White Experience Chapter 17 School Desegregation and Public Policy: The Boston Experience Chapter 18 Corpus Christi: A Triethnic Nonviolent Experience in School Desegregation Chapter 19 White Students in Black Colleges Chapter 20 Demographic Basis of Social Action for Urban Educational Reform Chapter 21 Conflict, Withdrawal, and Cooperation: Three Approaches ot Social Action Chapter 22 Community Development and Social Change Chapter 23 Theoretical Implications: Stability and Change Part 24 Macrosocial Studies Social Movements and Leadership: Conflict, Conciliation, and Cooperation. Chapter 25 New Learnings for Sociology from the Civil Rights Movement Chapter 26 Marginality and Social Change Chapter 27 Theoretical Implications: Conflict, Conciliation, and Cooperation Part 28 Summary and Conclusion Chapter 29 Social Theory for a Science of Humanity Chapter 30 Index

Editorial Reviews

This interesting set of materials charts the ways in which socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity intertwine and affect the lives of people. Especially appropriate for lower-division undergraduates.

Choice Reviews

There is much to value in a compilation of a scholar's major writing over a period of several decades.

Contemporary Sociology

The author identifies 12 theoretical principles concerned with social organization and social research.

Human Resources Abstracts

This book is a review of 25 years' research into the interrelationship between race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.

Race Relations Abstracts

This interesting set of materials charts the ways in which socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity intertwine and affect the lives of people. Especially appropriate for lower-division undergraduates.

Choice

This interesting set of materials charts the ways in which socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity intertwine and affect the lives of people. Especially appropriate for lower-division undergraduates.

CHOICE

This book is a review of 25 years' research into the interrelationship between race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.

Sage Race Relations Abstracts