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UNITED STATES AUTHOR · SOCIOLOGY · CITIES AND TOWNS

Robert Ezra Park

Also known as: Robert E. Park, Robert E. joint author Park

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Racial, ethnic, and cultural differences among peoples play a major role in the events of our times, in countries around the world, and have played a major role in the long history of the human race.

— from Race and Culture, 1992

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Race and Culture

1992

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This seminal book by one of our leading thinkers on race issues will forever change our views on race and ethnicity, culture, and the explosive policy issues that revolve around them, not only in contemporary America but in societies around the world and down through history. Race and Culture brings together more than a decade of research, encompassing dozens of ethnic groups in scores of countries around the world, to challenge most of the fundamental assumptions underlying the whole spectrum of "social science" beliefs and government policies dealing with racial and ethnic minorities. Its thesis is that differences in productive skills and cultural values are the key to understanding the advancement - or regression - of particular groups, particular countries, and whole civilizations. Thomas Sowell concludes that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities, nations, and civilizations. The spread of these skills across the planet, whether through migration or conquest, has shaped much of the history of the world and transformed its landscape. Attempts to achieve through multiculturalism, affirmative action, or other policies what can only be achieved by the development of cultural capital are illusions and distractions only likely to make matters worse.

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The immigrant press and its control

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Society

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Preface: All of the more important articles and prefaces written by Robert E Park are now available in the series of volumes of which this is the third. Certain phrases that recur in the following pages, human conduct, moral order, social order, moral world, moral career, suggest a possible theme of the essays in this volume. If animal behavior is talked of it is to distinguish human moral conduct from it. If the quasi-biological, ecological processes are mentioned, it is as underpinning for the more distinctly social processes. The lively, even violent, forms of collective behavior-crowds, sects, revivals, strikes, booms, crazes, fads and fashions are in Park's system the elementary forms of social interaction. News, in its various forms, is part of the communication which allows social interaction on a larger scale; public opinion is both a product of such interaction and the basis for new collective actions. Society, in its various forms is the on-going, somewhat ordered interaction of men; men who have not merely instincts, but goals to be achieved self conceptions to be lived up to, status to be fought for. In the course of talking about society, Park commented on the work of many others who have written about the same subject. The reader will find reference to many authors not commonly cited in the sociology of today. Park had little reverence for established departmental lines. In fact, he comments on the number of important sociological works not written by sociologists; and in a paper in this volume. At the beginning of each chapter credit is given to its original publisher.

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