Germania, U.S.A.: Social Change in New Ulm, MinnesotaU of Minnesota Press, 1966 - 188 pages |
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... positions of civic and cultural leadership in the community , a rare experience for immigrants . Moreover , they soon won recognition from the townspeople as status superiors . Their leadership extended to assimilation itself , the ...
... positions of civic and cultural leadership in the community , a rare experience for immigrants . Moreover , they soon won recognition from the townspeople as status superiors . Their leadership extended to assimilation itself , the ...
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... position of being at the same time members of a powerless class and of a powerful , rising nation . Feeling that their destiny was being unfulfilled because of an obdurate ruling class , this German middle class rose in revolu- tionary ...
... position of being at the same time members of a powerless class and of a powerful , rising nation . Feeling that their destiny was being unfulfilled because of an obdurate ruling class , this German middle class rose in revolu- tionary ...
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... position with the same determination as the upper classes . The minority psychology made the migrant Germans ripe for Utopian experiments — for the formation of withdrawn communities which could serve to bring to reality their dreams of ...
... position with the same determination as the upper classes . The minority psychology made the migrant Germans ripe for Utopian experiments — for the formation of withdrawn communities which could serve to bring to reality their dreams of ...
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... position of each kind of subcommunity with re- spect to the majority society are quite different . The peculiarities of subcommunity life are to be understood on the basis of the general theory of community underlying this study ( pp ...
... position of each kind of subcommunity with re- spect to the majority society are quite different . The peculiarities of subcommunity life are to be understood on the basis of the general theory of community underlying this study ( pp ...
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... positions were realistically threatened by the national egalitarian and emancipation movements of nineteenth - century Europe ) . See Hannah Arendt , The Origins of Totalitarianism , 2nd ed . ( New York : World , 1958 ) , pp . 11-18 ...
... positions were realistically threatened by the national egalitarian and emancipation movements of nineteenth - century Europe ) . See Hannah Arendt , The Origins of Totalitarianism , 2nd ed . ( New York : World , 1958 ) , pp . 11-18 ...
Contents
II A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS | 23 |
III CLASS STATUS AND POWER | 73 |
IV SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION | 139 |
APPENDIXES | 151 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 177 |
INDEX | 182 |
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American Social Structure American society analysis Appendix Table assimilation scale Association Beinhorn Brown County capital worth cent Chicago Cincinnati class and status clubs compared comparisons cultural differences economic ethnic and status ethnic community formation Forty-Eighters Founder T Member German immigrants German Revolution German-American Germania Turners Gerth gymnastic Ibid influence Jahn land less living in Germania Martindale Max Weber Mean scale score Member N-T membership Minnesota minority munity N-T Non-Member N-T native nativists non-German North America occupational old families Old World organization Pfaender political position prestige Refugees religious response Revolution Roman Catholic sample second-generation Settler N-T Non-Member social class Sociology status community status group Stratification subcommunity tion Total town Turner Hall Turner societies Turner versus non-Turner Turnerbund Turners and non-Turners Turners of Germania Turnverein United University Press unskilled upper status group utopian wealth Weber Wittke wives Wright Mills York