Immigration, Domination, and ‘Proportional Patriotism’
Recovering the Sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9601458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Balon (0000-0002-1501-8671, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, corresponding author), John Holmwood (0000-0002-3440-3524, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 314-340 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Sociologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1232 • E-ISSN: 1936-4784 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12108-022-09530-7 |
| PMID | 35342193 |
| OpenAlex | W4221090094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article addresses the sociological approach and political engagements of the early twentieth century sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller (1875–1951). He is now largely forgotten, but he had deep connections within the Chicago milieu of pragmatist sociology and social reform activities through both the Settlement movement and the Survey movement. In 1914 he wrote a volume in the Cleveland Survey on Immigrant children in the school system and in 1918 was appointed to head the division on Immigrant Contributions in the Carnegie Corporation’s project on ‘Methods of Americanization’, in which Robert E. Park was head of the division on Immigrant Press and Theater (Park in The Immigrant Press , 1922). If Miller’s name is recognized at all it is as author with Park of Old World Traits Transplanted (1921), a work subsequently attributed to W. I. Thomas. We examine the nature of Miller’s research on immigrant populations from subject nationalities in Europe, undertaken in Cleveland and as part of the Carnegie project. He left the latter project mid-way through to become part of a small group that drafted the Czechoslovakian Declaration of Independence in November 1918. We show how Miller developed a distinctive approach to ‘Americanization’ through his idea of ‘proportional patriotism’ that challenged the dominant discourse of assimilation that became entrenched in the years after the end of the first world war and which was largely accepted by Park and by Thomas. He was dismissed in 1932 from Ohio State University because of his views on race mixing and his criticisms of the British and Japanese empires
Americanization · Immigration · Miller · Patriotism · Political science · Politics · Psychological nativism · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · German Social Sciences and History · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Robert E. Park
Chicago Sociology
Richard Rorty
Racecraft
Reparation and Reconciliation
The Movement to Americanize the Immigrant
Patriotic Pluralism
No Crystal Stair”
Chicago Social Workers and Blacks in the Progressive Era
Making Americans
From Race Riot to Sit-In, 1919 and the 1960s
Visions and Vanities
The Black Community in Nashville and the Fisk University Student Strike of 1924-1925
The Oppression Psychosis and the Immigrant
Immigration, the Matrix of American Democracy
The Polish Peasant in Oberlin and Chicago
Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences
The Tradition of Sociology at Fisk University
The Development of Sociology
Quest for an American Sociology
The American Immigrant Revisited
The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists
The Group as an Instinct
Race Psychology
The Working Hypothesis in Social Reform
Pragmatism and empirical sociology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |