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- Title
NEGRO LIFEWAYS IN THE RURAL SOUTH: A TYPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION.
- Authors
Foreman, Paul B.
- Abstract
Caste has in the last decade been the prevailing general term for sociological description of Negro-white interracial status patterns in the U.S., class for description of interracial status variations. Modern interest in the combination of caste and class into one frame of reference stems directly from sociologist W.L. Warner's brief schematic presentation of theory conceptualizing Negro-white status patterns in a town in the Deep South. His device has served as a point of departure for description of colorline stratification. The way of life of the Negro peasant was set in the extreme cultural isolation of the pre-World War I Southern plantation economy. It represents on one hand an adjustment to the strict economic compulsives placed by a traditional commercial agriculture upon an unskilled and completely dependent labor force and on the other an adaptation to sharply defined racial sanctions imposed by dominant white entrepreneur, who viewed Negroes primarily as a labor adjunct to civilization.
- Subjects
AFRICAN Americans; QUALITY of life; CASTE; LABOR supply; SAVINGS; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1948, Vol 13, Issue 4, p409
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2087235