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(2) An earlier discussion of some consequences of this is to be found (1) in an essay on which I collaborated with Myrdal, Gunnar: Appendix 2 of An American Dilemma (NewYork, Harper, 1944)Google Scholar; and (2) in my Theory and Method in the Social Sciences (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1954)Google Scholar, chapter on “Selection of Problems for Research”.

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(3) An excellent summary and technical criticism of American research on mobility and social stratification is to be found in Gordon, Milton M., Social Class in American Sociology (Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1958).Google Scholar

(4) Lipset, and Bendix, , op. cit.Google Scholar

(5) “Social Mobility Brought About by Social Revolutions”, Working Paper Eleven submitted to the Fourth Working Conference on Social Stratification and Social Mobility, International Sociological Association, December, 1957.

(6) Riesman, David, with Glazer, Nathan and Denney, Reuel, The Lonely Crowd (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1950).Google Scholar

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