Locating Minority Populations: A Research Problem

See A.H. Barton and P.F. Lazarsfeld , 'Some Functions of Qualitative Analysis in Social Research', in S. M. Lipset and N. J. Smelser (eds.), Sociology: The Progress of a Decade (New York, Prentice-Hall, 1961), p. 95.

See a discussion of possible definitions by Preston Valien in J. Gould and W. L. Kolb (eds.), A Dictionary of the Social Sciences (London, Tavistock 1964), pp. 432f.

See also, R. Glass , 'Insiders-Outsiders: The Position of Minorities', in Transactions of the Fifth World Congress of Sociology, Vol. VIII, International Sociological Association (1964).

See for instance Gordon Westwood , A Minority: A Report on the Life of the Male Homosexual in Great Britain (London, Longmans, 1960).

See Jeremy Tunstall , Old and Alone: A Sociological Study of Old People (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966), p. 3;

see also Gordon F. Streib , 'Are the Aged a Minority Group?', in A. W. Gouldner and S. M. Miller (eds.) Applied Sociology (Free Press, 1965), pp. 311ff.

Some of the difficulties are briefly but most lucidly discussed by Emanuel J. de Kadt in an article entitled 'Locating Minority Group Members: Two British Surveys of Jewish University Students', in The Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. VI, No. 1 (June 1964), pp. 30, 31.

See M.G. Smith , The Plural Society in the British West Indies, (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1965), especially Chapters 2, 3 and 4.

For a discussion of techniques see, Gad Nathan , 'Methodological Problems in Jewish Population Studies in the U.S.A.', in The Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (June 1966), pp. 4f,

and C. Moses Horowitz , 'The Estimated Jewish Population of New York, 1958: A Study in Techniques' , in The Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. III, No. 2 (December 1961), pp. 243f.

An example of the estimation of the size of a Jewish community based on burial figures can be found in E. Krausz , Leeds Jewry: Its History and Social Structure (Cambridge, Heffer, 1963), pp. 7ff.

See Charles A. Price , Jewish Settlers in Australia , Social Science Monograph No. 23 (The Australian National University, 1964).

R.B. Davison , 'The Distribution of Immigrant Groups in London', in Race, Vol. V, No. 2 (October 1963);

Ceri Peach , West Indian Migration to Britain (London, Oxford University Press for the Institute for Race Relations, 1968), p. 115;

Clifford S. Hill , West Indian Migrants and the London Churches (London, Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 1963),

Appendix 1. Generally on the deficiencies of migration statistics, see for instance, Kenneth Leech. 'Migration and the British Population 1955-1962' in Race, Vol. VII, No. 4 (April 1966).

Davison , op. cit., p. 57.

Ruth Glass , Newcomers: The West Indians in London , (London, Allen and Unwin for the Centre for Urban Studies, 1960), pp. ii, 12.

See C.A. Moser , Survey Methods in Social Investigation (London, Heinemann, 1958), especially p. 121.

For a discussion of the use of church membership as an index of religious behaviour, see Michael Argyle , Religious Behaviour ( London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958), pp. 4f.

See the articles by Nathan and Horowitz , op. cit., pp. 8 and 244 respectively.

See E. Krausz , 'A Sociological Field Study of Jewish Suburban Life in Edgware 1962-63, with special reference to minority identification' , unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of London (March 1965).

See Leslie Kish , 'Selection of the Sample', in L. Festinger and D. Katz (eds.), Research Methods in the Behavioural Sciences (U.S.A., The Dryden Press, London, Staples Press, 1953), especially pp. 220f., and

Leslie Kish , Survey Sampling(London, Wiley, 1965), pp. 404f.

See John Rex and Robert Moore , Race, Community and Conflict , (London, Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 1967), Appendix, p. 286.

S. K. Ruck (ed.), The West Indian Comes to England (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960), p. 67.

A.K. Singh , Indian Students in Britain ( London, Asia Publishing House, 1963 ), pp. 131-2.

C.S. Gummer and J.S. Gummer , When the Coloured People Come (London, Oldbourne, 1966), pp. 55f. and Appendix II.

Solomon Poll , The Hasidic Community of Williamburg (Illinois, The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962), pp. 271-2.

Sheila Patterson , Dark Strangers ( London, Tavistock, 1963), p. 26.

See Nathan Hurvitz in Yivo Annual of Jewish Social Science , Vol. XIII (1965), p. 161.

John Spencer et. al. , Stress and Release in an Urban Estate: A Study in Action Research (London, Tavistock, 1964).

Glass , op. cit., pp. xii, xiii.

Rex and Moore , op. cit., p. 287.

Krausz , unpublished Ph.D. thesis, op. cit., Appendix A, p. 214.

R.M. MacIver , Social Causation (revised edition) (London, Harper Torchbooks, 1964), p. 377.

A discussion of the possible criteria to use for defining Jews will be found in M. Freedman (ed.), A Minority in Britain (London, Vallentine Mitchell, 1955), pp. 60f., 150f., 201f., and 206.

Judith Henderson , 'Race Relations in Britain', in J. A. G. Griffith et. al., Coloured Immigrants in Britain (London, Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Race Relations, 1960), p. 48.

J. Zubrzycki , Polish Immigrants in Britain ( The Hague, Nijhoff, 1956).

Rex and Moore , op. cit., p. 85.