Melvin Tumin

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Melvin Tumin is affiliated with the following schools: Princeton University, Wayne State University, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Chicago, Columbia University

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Melvin Tumin

Sociology

#200

World Rank

#266

Historical Rank

#99

USA Rank

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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Melvin Marvin Tumin was an American sociologist who specialized in race relations. He taught at Princeton University for much of his career. Early life Tumin was born and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. His mother, Rose Yawitz Tumin, raised him and his two brothers on her own after the death of his father when Tumin was in his very early teens. He was the middle brother; Edward Tumin was his younger brother, and Israel Tumin was his older brother. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1939. He received his Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology from Northwestern University in 1944. While attending graduate school, he shared an apartment in Chicago with future author, Saul Bellow.

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Melvin Tumin's Published Works

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Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis (1953) (243)
Some Social Functions of Ignorance (1949) (200)
Social Stratification: The Forms and Functions of Inequality (1968) (93)
Social Class and Social Change in Puerto Rico. (1962) (69)
Mass Culture : The Popular Arts in America (1957) (40)
Some Unapplauded Consequences of Social Mobility in a Mass Society (1957) (32)
Caste In A Peasant Society (1952) (30)
Desegregation Resistance and Readiness (1958) (26)
Education, Prejudice and Discrimination: A Study in Readiness for Desegregation (1958) (21)
Comparative perspectives on race relations (1971) (16)
Social Life: Structure and Function (1949) (16)
Status, Mobility and Anomie: A Study in Readiness for Desegregation (1959) (16)
Readings on social stratification (1967) (14)
Exposure to Mass Media and Readiness for Desegregation (1957) (14)
The Miracle at Sabana Grande (1955) (13)
Readiness and Resistance to Desegregation: A Social Portrait of the Hard Core (1958) (12)
The hero and the scapegoat in a peasant community. (1950) (11)
Caste in a Peasant Society: A Case Study in the Dynamics of Caste (1975) (10)
Culture, Genuine and Spurious: A Re-Evaluation (1945) (10)
Caste in a Peasant Society. A Case Study in the Dynamics of Caste (1953) (9)
THEORY AND MEASUREMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY (1957) (9)
Pluralism in a democratic society (1977) (9)
The Functionalist Approach to Social Problems (1965) (9)
Rewards and Task-Orientations (1955) (7)
Some fragments from the life history of a marginal man. (1945) (7)
Status, Perspective and Achievement: Education and Class Structure in Puerto Rico (1956) (7)
Business as a social system. (1964) (6)
Leaders, the Led, and the Law: A Case Study in Social Change (1957) (6)
Desegregation: Some Propositions and Research Suggestions. (1959) (6)
Evaluation of the effectiveness of education: Some problems and prospects (1970) (6)
Reciprocity and Stability of Caste in Guatemala (1949) (5)
Some social requirements for effective community development (1957) (5)
The Dynamics of Cultural Discontinuity in a Peasant Society (1950) (4)
In Dispraise of Loyalty (1968) (4)
Problems of Power in American Democracy (1958) (4)
Patterns of Society: Identities, Roles, Resources (1973) (3)
Segregation and desegregation : a digest of recent research by Melvin M. Tumin (1975) (3)
Studies in the Scope and Method of “The Authoritarian Personality.” Marie Jahoda and Richard Christie (eds.) (1955) (2)
Teaching in America (1968) (2)
Procedures for Effecting Educational Change (1967) (2)
Research Annual on Intergroup Relations: 1965. (1966) (2)
Research Annual on Intergroup Relations, 1972. (1968) (2)
CONFERENCE ON QUALITY AND EQUALITY IN EDUCATION. (1966) (2)
Equality and Inequality: Facts and Values (1973) (1)
Race and intelligence : an evaluation . The study of race (1963) (1)
Tropical Childhood: Cultural Transmission and Learning in a Rural Puerto Rican Village. (1960) (1)
The Functions of Testing. (1981) (1)
Style and Civilizations.A. L. Kroeber (1960) (1)
Comment on Papers by Riesman, Sills, and Tax (1959) (1)
Sociological aspects of desegregation. (1959) (1)
Chapter III. Eleven Factors Which Influence Attitudes: A Selection (1959) (0)
Chapter V. Education and Attitudes, with other Factors Held Constant (1959) (0)
CHAPTER 17. LEVELS OF ASPIRATION AND ASSIMILATION (1952) (0)
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Educational Systems. Final Report. Volume II. (1969) (0)
Social Problems.Francis E. Merrill (1951) (0)
Chapter X. The Quality and Role of Leaders in the Process of Desegregation (1959) (0)
CHAPTER 14. WHERE THE PEOPLE STAY APART (1952) (0)
CHAPTER 3. RELIGION, MEDICINE, AND MAGIC (1952) (0)
APPENDIX III. LADINO OPINIONS ABOUT INTERMARRIAGE (1952) (0)
OTHER: Theory and Method in the Social Sciences. Arnold M. Rose (1955) (0)
CHAPTER 9. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND ATTITUDES (1952) (0)
CHAPTER 10. THE GODPARENT COMPLEX (1952) (0)
CHAPTER 7. CLOTHING (1952) (0)
17. Editorial: Congress and the Support of Behavioral Science (1958) (0)
Introductory Sociology.@@@Sociology. (1947) (0)
Chapter IV. Education and Attitudes Toward Desegregation (1959) (0)
APPENDIX II. THE SCHEDULE (1952) (0)
Chapter I. Background of the Study (1959) (0)
Chapter II. Attitudes Toward the Negro and Desegregation (1959) (0)
CHAPTER 4. THE PUEBLO: ITS RELATIONS AND REPUTATION (1952) (0)
CHAPTER 16. GROUP IMAGES (1952) (0)
CHAPTER 1. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK (1952) (0)
Chapter XI. Two Collective Portraits: The Hard Core and Those Who are Ready (1959) (0)
CHAPTER 15. INTRA-GROUP STRATIFICATION (1952) (0)
Book Review:The People of Puerto Rico: A Study in Social Anthropology. Julian H. Steward (1958) (0)
CHAPTER 8. HOUSING: QUALITY, STYLE, AND LOCATION (1952) (0)
Societies around the World. Edited by Irwin T. Sanders, Richard B. Woodbury, Frank J. Essene, Thomas P. Field, Joseph R. Schwendeman, Charles E. Snow (1954) (0)
Book Review:The Family: Its Function and Destiny. Ruth Nanda Anshen (1949) (0)
Chapter VI. Exposure to Mass Media and Attitudes Toward Desegregation (1959) (0)
Chichicastenango: A Guatemalan Village. Ruth Bunzel (1954) (0)
CHAPTER 13. WHERE THE PEOPLE MEET (1952) (0)
OTHER: Class and Society. Kurt B. Mayer (1956) (0)
Racist and Antisemitic Prejudices (France) (1964) (0)
Appendix A: Methodology (1952) (0)
Racist and Antisemitic Prejudices (Germany) (1964) (0)
Art education : a frontier for freedom (1955) (0)
AN INVENTORY OF RESEARCH AND THEORY REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP. (1966) (0)
Nathan Glazer and Davis McEntire (Eds.). Studies in Housing and Minor ity Groups. (Special Research Report to the Commission on Race and Housing.) Pp. xii, 228. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960. $6.00 (1961) (0)
DISCUSSION (1970) (0)
The Educational Characteristics of the American People (1960) (0)
COMMITIEE ON THE STUDY OF TEACHING MATERIALS IN INTERGROUP RELATIONS (1949) (0)
Book Review: Labor Conditions and Problems: Discrimination and Low Incomes: Social and Economic Discrimination against Minority Groups in Relation to Low Incomes in New York State (1962) (0)
More On Washington University (1972) (0)
Racist and Antisemitic Prejudices (England) (1964) (0)
CHAPTER 12. THE DIFFERENTIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF KINSHIP (1952) (0)
Attitude Surveys on Desegregation (1958) (0)
Review: Indigenous Peoples (1955) (0)
CHAPTER 5. PHYSICAL FACTORS AND THEIR SOCIAL DEFINITIONS (1952) (0)
Chapter VII. Exposure to Mass Media and Attitudes, with other Factors Held Constant (1959) (0)
Research Annual on Intergroup Relations, 1965; A Research Study of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. (1966) (0)
CHAPTER 6. LANGUAGE, LITERACY, AND EDUCATION (1952) (0)
Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory.A. L. KroeberAn Appraisal of Anthropology Today.Sol Tax , Loren C. Eiseley , Irving Rouse , Carl F. Voegelin (1954) (0)
Chapter VIII. Occupation, Mobility, and Attitudes Toward Desegregation (1959) (0)
Chapter XII. Ten Major Findings and Their Implications (1959) (0)
Early Education: The Creation of Capacity. (1968) (0)
Chapter IX. Occupation, Mobility, and Attitudes, with other Factors Held Constant (1959) (0)
Male and Female in Today's World (1980) (0)
Obligation: A Social Theory. By Ralph Ross. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1970. Pp. 200. $7.50.) (1974) (0)
CHAPTER 11. THE DIFFERENTIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION (1952) (0)
CHAPTER 2. SOCIALIZATION, EDUCATION, AND RECREATION (1952) (0)
Dark Strangers: A Sociology Study of the Absorption of a Recent West Indian Migrant Group in Brixton, South London. (1965) (0)

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