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An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki’s “The Polish Peasant in Europe and America”

1939 · by Herbert Blumer

Critique, commissioned by the Social Science Research Council, of the most admired study of American sociology: its concepts of attitude and value are not clearly kept apart, and the letters and life histories illustrate its theory rather than test it.

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