Books
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice
– "The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice." Commentary, May, 1946.Excerpt: The intellectual current that now impels writers—in the big national magazines as well as the more serious little magazines—to talk about race prejudice has not left social… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: What is Sociology’s Job?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What is Sociology's Job?" Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: The recent annual meeting of the American Sociological Society in Chicago (Hotel Stevens, December 27- 30) brought together perhaps 1,000 people who call themselves… More
The Study of Man: ‘The American Soldier’ as Science
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: 'The American Soldier' as Science." Commentary, November, 1947.Excerpt: [The Emperor Frederick II] wanted to find out what kind of speech and what manner of speech children would have when they grew up, if they spoke to no one beforehand. So he bade… More
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
– Riesman, David, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denny. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.The Lonely Crowd was first published in 1950 as a sociological analysis. The authors trace the development of the new middle class as the character of contemporary society shifts from… More
A Child’s Guide to a Parent’s Mind
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Child's Guide to a Parent's Mind by Sally Liberman Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1950.Excerpt: This book grew out of questions asked by young persons of seventeen to twenty-five as to why their parents were so impossible, and was written by a young woman who was graduated… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can’t Do
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can't Do." Commentary, 1951.Excerpt: Since 1948, public opinion polls have not been much in the public eye. The Great Miscalculation of 1948 drove them from their favored places in the daily newspapers, and the… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics
– Riesman, David, and Nathan Glazer. Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies In Character and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.A follow up volume to the sociological studies of The Lonely Crowd, Faces in the Crowd further delves into questions of the individual and character. The work explores the place of… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?" Commentary, 1953.Excerpt: The various social sciences, like all disciplines possessing an individual history and a corps of specially trained practitioners, ask their own questions, and answer them in their… More
The Study of Man: New Light on ‘The Authoritarian Personality’
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: New Light on 'The Authoritarian Personality.'" Commentary, 1954.Excerpt: The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950 as part of the Studies in Prejudice series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, stands as one of the most ambitious efforts… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
Crestwood Heights by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Crestwood Heights' by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed." Review of Crestwood Heights, by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley, Commentary, November, 1956.Excerpt: “Crestwood Heights” is a well-to-do suburb of Toronto. I am not sure precisely how “well-to-do”—one of the problems of this book, indeed, is that just this kind of… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community
– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More
“The Newcomers’, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis by Martin Segal Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis, by Martin Segal Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1960.Excerpt: These are the third and fourth volumes of the New York Metropolitan Region Study, of which two volumes (Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon, and Made in… More
Studies in Housing and Minority Groups
– Glazer, Nathan and Davis McEntire. Studies in Housing and Minority Groups. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.Part of the Publications of the Commission on Race and Housing, Glazer, working alongside Davis McEntire published the volume comparing housing and minority groups in cities throughout the… More
The Nation’s Children Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Nation's Children', Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed." Review of The Nation's Children, by Eli Ginzberg, Commentary, June, 1960.Excerpt: These thirty-one papers were prepared as background reading for the decennial White House Conference on Children and Youth held late in March in Washington, with a vast attendance… More
The Social Basis of American Communism
– Glazer, Nathan. The Social Basis of American Communism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.In The Social Basis of American Communism, Glazer describes the groups targeted by the Communist Party for recruiting efforts and those making up the majority of its membership. He also… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty – San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York', by Oscar Lewis Reviewed." Review of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis, Commentary, February, 1967.Excerpt: This enormous volume is presented as only the first of a series on Puerto Rican slum families in San Juan and New York. It will form an important part of the literature building up… More
Housing Problems and Housing Policies
– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
A New Look at the Melting Pot
– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed." Review of Social Policy, Commentary, August, 1970.Excerpt: Social Policy is a new journal devoted generally to social change, but specifically to a critical examination of the various agencies of social policy—in education, health,… More
Paradoxes of Health Care
– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of Health Care." The Public Interest, 1971.Excerpt: Some intriguing questions–indeed, mysteries–seem to arise when one examines the field of health care. I intend to present some data–the best available, to my… More
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan, editors, Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.Along with Daniel Moynihan, Glazer both writes the Introduction and edited this work on modern ethnic identity. The essays cover studies in ethnic groups in nations around the world.
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
Ethnicity – North, South, West
– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More
Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982
– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982. These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society
– Glazer, Nathan. New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1990.Part of the Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture Series, Glazer examines the social and political implications of immigration to the United States during the 1980s.
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… More
Culture and achievement
– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More
The American diversity and the 2000 Census
– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More
Do we Need the Census Race Question?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More
The black faculty gap
– Glazer, Nathan. "The black faculty gap." The Public Interest, 2003.Excerpt: Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students, by the sociologists Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, has already aroused controversy.… More
Out of Africa: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Out of Africa." Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn, The New Republic, February 14, 2005.Excerpt: Melville J. Herskovits is best known today for his book The Myth of the Negro Past, which appeared in 1941, and argued that one could find among American Negroes… More
Training Teachers: The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Training Teachers." Review of The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree, Education Next, Summer, 2005.Excerpt: Once long ago I noticed the great disparity between what theology and religion students were expected to know to write their theses—Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a few modern… More
Shame of the Nation: Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Shame of the Nation." Review of Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol, The New York Times, September 25, 2005.Excerpt: Jonathan Kozol has been writing books rather similar to this one since “Death at an Early Age” in 1968. He is persistent, it is true, but so is the problem that has… More
Color Me Purple: Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Color Me Purple." Review of Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock, Education Next, Winter 2006.Excerpt: Mica Pollock taught in a California high school for a year in the mid-1990s, then spent another two years in research in the same school as a graduate student in what appears to be… More
What Happened to the Social Agenda?
– Glazer, Nathan. "What Happened to the Social Agenda?" The American Scholar (2007).Excerpt: Seven years ago, I was asked to address the 1950 class of the Harvard Graduate School of Design at their 50th reunion in Cambridge. One sentence in the invitation from Robert… More
Cultural Exchange
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cultural Exchange." Review of The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope by Claudia Kolker, Education Next, Fall 2013.Excerpt: “The Immigration Spring” reads the title of the lead editorial in the New York Times today as I write this review of The Immigrant Advantage. The Times is welcoming a rare case… More
Essays
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice
– "The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice." Commentary, May, 1946.Excerpt: The intellectual current that now impels writers—in the big national magazines as well as the more serious little magazines—to talk about race prejudice has not left social… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: What is Sociology’s Job?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What is Sociology's Job?" Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: The recent annual meeting of the American Sociological Society in Chicago (Hotel Stevens, December 27- 30) brought together perhaps 1,000 people who call themselves… More
The Study of Man: ‘The American Soldier’ as Science
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: 'The American Soldier' as Science." Commentary, November, 1947.Excerpt: [The Emperor Frederick II] wanted to find out what kind of speech and what manner of speech children would have when they grew up, if they spoke to no one beforehand. So he bade… More
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
– Riesman, David, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denny. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.The Lonely Crowd was first published in 1950 as a sociological analysis. The authors trace the development of the new middle class as the character of contemporary society shifts from… More
A Child’s Guide to a Parent’s Mind
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Child's Guide to a Parent's Mind by Sally Liberman Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1950.Excerpt: This book grew out of questions asked by young persons of seventeen to twenty-five as to why their parents were so impossible, and was written by a young woman who was graduated… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can’t Do
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can't Do." Commentary, 1951.Excerpt: Since 1948, public opinion polls have not been much in the public eye. The Great Miscalculation of 1948 drove them from their favored places in the daily newspapers, and the… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics
– Riesman, David, and Nathan Glazer. Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies In Character and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.A follow up volume to the sociological studies of The Lonely Crowd, Faces in the Crowd further delves into questions of the individual and character. The work explores the place of… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?" Commentary, 1953.Excerpt: The various social sciences, like all disciplines possessing an individual history and a corps of specially trained practitioners, ask their own questions, and answer them in their… More
The Study of Man: New Light on ‘The Authoritarian Personality’
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: New Light on 'The Authoritarian Personality.'" Commentary, 1954.Excerpt: The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950 as part of the Studies in Prejudice series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, stands as one of the most ambitious efforts… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
Crestwood Heights by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Crestwood Heights' by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed." Review of Crestwood Heights, by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley, Commentary, November, 1956.Excerpt: “Crestwood Heights” is a well-to-do suburb of Toronto. I am not sure precisely how “well-to-do”—one of the problems of this book, indeed, is that just this kind of… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community
– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More
“The Newcomers’, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis by Martin Segal Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis, by Martin Segal Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1960.Excerpt: These are the third and fourth volumes of the New York Metropolitan Region Study, of which two volumes (Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon, and Made in… More
Studies in Housing and Minority Groups
– Glazer, Nathan and Davis McEntire. Studies in Housing and Minority Groups. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.Part of the Publications of the Commission on Race and Housing, Glazer, working alongside Davis McEntire published the volume comparing housing and minority groups in cities throughout the… More
The Nation’s Children Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Nation's Children', Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed." Review of The Nation's Children, by Eli Ginzberg, Commentary, June, 1960.Excerpt: These thirty-one papers were prepared as background reading for the decennial White House Conference on Children and Youth held late in March in Washington, with a vast attendance… More
The Social Basis of American Communism
– Glazer, Nathan. The Social Basis of American Communism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.In The Social Basis of American Communism, Glazer describes the groups targeted by the Communist Party for recruiting efforts and those making up the majority of its membership. He also… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty – San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York', by Oscar Lewis Reviewed." Review of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis, Commentary, February, 1967.Excerpt: This enormous volume is presented as only the first of a series on Puerto Rican slum families in San Juan and New York. It will form an important part of the literature building up… More
Housing Problems and Housing Policies
– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
A New Look at the Melting Pot
– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed." Review of Social Policy, Commentary, August, 1970.Excerpt: Social Policy is a new journal devoted generally to social change, but specifically to a critical examination of the various agencies of social policy—in education, health,… More
Paradoxes of Health Care
– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of Health Care." The Public Interest, 1971.Excerpt: Some intriguing questions–indeed, mysteries–seem to arise when one examines the field of health care. I intend to present some data–the best available, to my… More
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan, editors, Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.Along with Daniel Moynihan, Glazer both writes the Introduction and edited this work on modern ethnic identity. The essays cover studies in ethnic groups in nations around the world.
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
Ethnicity – North, South, West
– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More
Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982
– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982. These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society
– Glazer, Nathan. New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1990.Part of the Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture Series, Glazer examines the social and political implications of immigration to the United States during the 1980s.
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… More
Culture and achievement
– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More
The American diversity and the 2000 Census
– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More
Do we Need the Census Race Question?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More
The black faculty gap
– Glazer, Nathan. "The black faculty gap." The Public Interest, 2003.Excerpt: Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students, by the sociologists Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, has already aroused controversy.… More
Out of Africa: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Out of Africa." Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn, The New Republic, February 14, 2005.Excerpt: Melville J. Herskovits is best known today for his book The Myth of the Negro Past, which appeared in 1941, and argued that one could find among American Negroes… More
Training Teachers: The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Training Teachers." Review of The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree, Education Next, Summer, 2005.Excerpt: Once long ago I noticed the great disparity between what theology and religion students were expected to know to write their theses—Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a few modern… More
Shame of the Nation: Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Shame of the Nation." Review of Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol, The New York Times, September 25, 2005.Excerpt: Jonathan Kozol has been writing books rather similar to this one since “Death at an Early Age” in 1968. He is persistent, it is true, but so is the problem that has… More
Color Me Purple: Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Color Me Purple." Review of Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock, Education Next, Winter 2006.Excerpt: Mica Pollock taught in a California high school for a year in the mid-1990s, then spent another two years in research in the same school as a graduate student in what appears to be… More
What Happened to the Social Agenda?
– Glazer, Nathan. "What Happened to the Social Agenda?" The American Scholar (2007).Excerpt: Seven years ago, I was asked to address the 1950 class of the Harvard Graduate School of Design at their 50th reunion in Cambridge. One sentence in the invitation from Robert… More
Cultural Exchange
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cultural Exchange." Review of The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope by Claudia Kolker, Education Next, Fall 2013.Excerpt: “The Immigration Spring” reads the title of the lead editorial in the New York Times today as I write this review of The Immigrant Advantage. The Times is welcoming a rare case… More
Commentary
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice
– "The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice." Commentary, May, 1946.Excerpt: The intellectual current that now impels writers—in the big national magazines as well as the more serious little magazines—to talk about race prejudice has not left social… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: What is Sociology’s Job?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What is Sociology's Job?" Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: The recent annual meeting of the American Sociological Society in Chicago (Hotel Stevens, December 27- 30) brought together perhaps 1,000 people who call themselves… More
The Study of Man: ‘The American Soldier’ as Science
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: 'The American Soldier' as Science." Commentary, November, 1947.Excerpt: [The Emperor Frederick II] wanted to find out what kind of speech and what manner of speech children would have when they grew up, if they spoke to no one beforehand. So he bade… More
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
– Riesman, David, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denny. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.The Lonely Crowd was first published in 1950 as a sociological analysis. The authors trace the development of the new middle class as the character of contemporary society shifts from… More
A Child’s Guide to a Parent’s Mind
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Child's Guide to a Parent's Mind by Sally Liberman Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1950.Excerpt: This book grew out of questions asked by young persons of seventeen to twenty-five as to why their parents were so impossible, and was written by a young woman who was graduated… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can’t Do
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can't Do." Commentary, 1951.Excerpt: Since 1948, public opinion polls have not been much in the public eye. The Great Miscalculation of 1948 drove them from their favored places in the daily newspapers, and the… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics
– Riesman, David, and Nathan Glazer. Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies In Character and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.A follow up volume to the sociological studies of The Lonely Crowd, Faces in the Crowd further delves into questions of the individual and character. The work explores the place of… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?" Commentary, 1953.Excerpt: The various social sciences, like all disciplines possessing an individual history and a corps of specially trained practitioners, ask their own questions, and answer them in their… More
The Study of Man: New Light on ‘The Authoritarian Personality’
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: New Light on 'The Authoritarian Personality.'" Commentary, 1954.Excerpt: The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950 as part of the Studies in Prejudice series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, stands as one of the most ambitious efforts… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
Crestwood Heights by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Crestwood Heights' by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed." Review of Crestwood Heights, by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley, Commentary, November, 1956.Excerpt: “Crestwood Heights” is a well-to-do suburb of Toronto. I am not sure precisely how “well-to-do”—one of the problems of this book, indeed, is that just this kind of… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community
– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More
“The Newcomers’, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis by Martin Segal Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis, by Martin Segal Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1960.Excerpt: These are the third and fourth volumes of the New York Metropolitan Region Study, of which two volumes (Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon, and Made in… More
Studies in Housing and Minority Groups
– Glazer, Nathan and Davis McEntire. Studies in Housing and Minority Groups. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.Part of the Publications of the Commission on Race and Housing, Glazer, working alongside Davis McEntire published the volume comparing housing and minority groups in cities throughout the… More
The Nation’s Children Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Nation's Children', Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed." Review of The Nation's Children, by Eli Ginzberg, Commentary, June, 1960.Excerpt: These thirty-one papers were prepared as background reading for the decennial White House Conference on Children and Youth held late in March in Washington, with a vast attendance… More
The Social Basis of American Communism
– Glazer, Nathan. The Social Basis of American Communism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.In The Social Basis of American Communism, Glazer describes the groups targeted by the Communist Party for recruiting efforts and those making up the majority of its membership. He also… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty – San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York', by Oscar Lewis Reviewed." Review of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis, Commentary, February, 1967.Excerpt: This enormous volume is presented as only the first of a series on Puerto Rican slum families in San Juan and New York. It will form an important part of the literature building up… More
Housing Problems and Housing Policies
– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
A New Look at the Melting Pot
– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed." Review of Social Policy, Commentary, August, 1970.Excerpt: Social Policy is a new journal devoted generally to social change, but specifically to a critical examination of the various agencies of social policy—in education, health,… More
Paradoxes of Health Care
– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of Health Care." The Public Interest, 1971.Excerpt: Some intriguing questions–indeed, mysteries–seem to arise when one examines the field of health care. I intend to present some data–the best available, to my… More
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan, editors, Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.Along with Daniel Moynihan, Glazer both writes the Introduction and edited this work on modern ethnic identity. The essays cover studies in ethnic groups in nations around the world.
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
Ethnicity – North, South, West
– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More
Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982
– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982. These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society
– Glazer, Nathan. New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1990.Part of the Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture Series, Glazer examines the social and political implications of immigration to the United States during the 1980s.
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… More
Culture and achievement
– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More
The American diversity and the 2000 Census
– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More
Do we Need the Census Race Question?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More
The black faculty gap
– Glazer, Nathan. "The black faculty gap." The Public Interest, 2003.Excerpt: Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students, by the sociologists Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, has already aroused controversy.… More
Out of Africa: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Out of Africa." Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn, The New Republic, February 14, 2005.Excerpt: Melville J. Herskovits is best known today for his book The Myth of the Negro Past, which appeared in 1941, and argued that one could find among American Negroes… More
Training Teachers: The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Training Teachers." Review of The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree, Education Next, Summer, 2005.Excerpt: Once long ago I noticed the great disparity between what theology and religion students were expected to know to write their theses—Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a few modern… More
Shame of the Nation: Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Shame of the Nation." Review of Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol, The New York Times, September 25, 2005.Excerpt: Jonathan Kozol has been writing books rather similar to this one since “Death at an Early Age” in 1968. He is persistent, it is true, but so is the problem that has… More
Color Me Purple: Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Color Me Purple." Review of Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock, Education Next, Winter 2006.Excerpt: Mica Pollock taught in a California high school for a year in the mid-1990s, then spent another two years in research in the same school as a graduate student in what appears to be… More
What Happened to the Social Agenda?
– Glazer, Nathan. "What Happened to the Social Agenda?" The American Scholar (2007).Excerpt: Seven years ago, I was asked to address the 1950 class of the Harvard Graduate School of Design at their 50th reunion in Cambridge. One sentence in the invitation from Robert… More
Cultural Exchange
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cultural Exchange." Review of The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope by Claudia Kolker, Education Next, Fall 2013.Excerpt: “The Immigration Spring” reads the title of the lead editorial in the New York Times today as I write this review of The Immigrant Advantage. The Times is welcoming a rare case… More
Multimedia
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice
– "The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice." Commentary, May, 1946.Excerpt: The intellectual current that now impels writers—in the big national magazines as well as the more serious little magazines—to talk about race prejudice has not left social… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: What is Sociology’s Job?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What is Sociology's Job?" Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: The recent annual meeting of the American Sociological Society in Chicago (Hotel Stevens, December 27- 30) brought together perhaps 1,000 people who call themselves… More
The Study of Man: ‘The American Soldier’ as Science
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: 'The American Soldier' as Science." Commentary, November, 1947.Excerpt: [The Emperor Frederick II] wanted to find out what kind of speech and what manner of speech children would have when they grew up, if they spoke to no one beforehand. So he bade… More
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
– Riesman, David, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denny. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.The Lonely Crowd was first published in 1950 as a sociological analysis. The authors trace the development of the new middle class as the character of contemporary society shifts from… More
A Child’s Guide to a Parent’s Mind
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Child's Guide to a Parent's Mind by Sally Liberman Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1950.Excerpt: This book grew out of questions asked by young persons of seventeen to twenty-five as to why their parents were so impossible, and was written by a young woman who was graduated… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can’t Do
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can't Do." Commentary, 1951.Excerpt: Since 1948, public opinion polls have not been much in the public eye. The Great Miscalculation of 1948 drove them from their favored places in the daily newspapers, and the… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics
– Riesman, David, and Nathan Glazer. Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies In Character and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.A follow up volume to the sociological studies of The Lonely Crowd, Faces in the Crowd further delves into questions of the individual and character. The work explores the place of… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?" Commentary, 1953.Excerpt: The various social sciences, like all disciplines possessing an individual history and a corps of specially trained practitioners, ask their own questions, and answer them in their… More
The Study of Man: New Light on ‘The Authoritarian Personality’
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: New Light on 'The Authoritarian Personality.'" Commentary, 1954.Excerpt: The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950 as part of the Studies in Prejudice series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, stands as one of the most ambitious efforts… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
Crestwood Heights by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Crestwood Heights' by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed." Review of Crestwood Heights, by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley, Commentary, November, 1956.Excerpt: “Crestwood Heights” is a well-to-do suburb of Toronto. I am not sure precisely how “well-to-do”—one of the problems of this book, indeed, is that just this kind of… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community
– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More
“The Newcomers’, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis by Martin Segal Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis, by Martin Segal Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1960.Excerpt: These are the third and fourth volumes of the New York Metropolitan Region Study, of which two volumes (Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon, and Made in… More
Studies in Housing and Minority Groups
– Glazer, Nathan and Davis McEntire. Studies in Housing and Minority Groups. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.Part of the Publications of the Commission on Race and Housing, Glazer, working alongside Davis McEntire published the volume comparing housing and minority groups in cities throughout the… More
The Nation’s Children Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Nation's Children', Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed." Review of The Nation's Children, by Eli Ginzberg, Commentary, June, 1960.Excerpt: These thirty-one papers were prepared as background reading for the decennial White House Conference on Children and Youth held late in March in Washington, with a vast attendance… More
The Social Basis of American Communism
– Glazer, Nathan. The Social Basis of American Communism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.In The Social Basis of American Communism, Glazer describes the groups targeted by the Communist Party for recruiting efforts and those making up the majority of its membership. He also… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty – San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York', by Oscar Lewis Reviewed." Review of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis, Commentary, February, 1967.Excerpt: This enormous volume is presented as only the first of a series on Puerto Rican slum families in San Juan and New York. It will form an important part of the literature building up… More
Housing Problems and Housing Policies
– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
A New Look at the Melting Pot
– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed." Review of Social Policy, Commentary, August, 1970.Excerpt: Social Policy is a new journal devoted generally to social change, but specifically to a critical examination of the various agencies of social policy—in education, health,… More
Paradoxes of Health Care
– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of Health Care." The Public Interest, 1971.Excerpt: Some intriguing questions–indeed, mysteries–seem to arise when one examines the field of health care. I intend to present some data–the best available, to my… More
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan, editors, Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.Along with Daniel Moynihan, Glazer both writes the Introduction and edited this work on modern ethnic identity. The essays cover studies in ethnic groups in nations around the world.
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
Ethnicity – North, South, West
– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More
Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982
– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982. These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society
– Glazer, Nathan. New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1990.Part of the Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture Series, Glazer examines the social and political implications of immigration to the United States during the 1980s.
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… More
Culture and achievement
– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More
The American diversity and the 2000 Census
– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More
Do we Need the Census Race Question?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More
The black faculty gap
– Glazer, Nathan. "The black faculty gap." The Public Interest, 2003.Excerpt: Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students, by the sociologists Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, has already aroused controversy.… More
Out of Africa: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Out of Africa." Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn, The New Republic, February 14, 2005.Excerpt: Melville J. Herskovits is best known today for his book The Myth of the Negro Past, which appeared in 1941, and argued that one could find among American Negroes… More
Training Teachers: The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Training Teachers." Review of The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree, Education Next, Summer, 2005.Excerpt: Once long ago I noticed the great disparity between what theology and religion students were expected to know to write their theses—Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a few modern… More
Shame of the Nation: Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Shame of the Nation." Review of Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol, The New York Times, September 25, 2005.Excerpt: Jonathan Kozol has been writing books rather similar to this one since “Death at an Early Age” in 1968. He is persistent, it is true, but so is the problem that has… More
Color Me Purple: Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Color Me Purple." Review of Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock, Education Next, Winter 2006.Excerpt: Mica Pollock taught in a California high school for a year in the mid-1990s, then spent another two years in research in the same school as a graduate student in what appears to be… More
What Happened to the Social Agenda?
– Glazer, Nathan. "What Happened to the Social Agenda?" The American Scholar (2007).Excerpt: Seven years ago, I was asked to address the 1950 class of the Harvard Graduate School of Design at their 50th reunion in Cambridge. One sentence in the invitation from Robert… More
Cultural Exchange
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cultural Exchange." Review of The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope by Claudia Kolker, Education Next, Fall 2013.Excerpt: “The Immigration Spring” reads the title of the lead editorial in the New York Times today as I write this review of The Immigrant Advantage. The Times is welcoming a rare case… More
Teaching
The Study of Man
– "The Study of Man." Commentary, November, 1945.Excerpt: Social scientists can no longer be reproached for busying themselves with theoretical issues while ignoring the major problems confronting mankind. The ivory towers now stand… More
The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice
– "The Study of Man: The Social Scientists Dissect Prejudice." Commentary, May, 1946.Excerpt: The intellectual current that now impels writers—in the big national magazines as well as the more serious little magazines—to talk about race prejudice has not left social… More
The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation
– "The Study of Man: Government by Manipulation." Commentary, July, 1946.Excerpt: Everyone within reach of a radio loudspeaker or a newspaper headline knows of the tremendous advances made by science during the war: atomic bombs, radiocontrolled planes, rockets… More
The Study of Man: What is Sociology’s Job?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What is Sociology's Job?" Commentary, 1947.Excerpt: The recent annual meeting of the American Sociological Society in Chicago (Hotel Stevens, December 27- 30) brought together perhaps 1,000 people who call themselves… More
The Study of Man: ‘The American Soldier’ as Science
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: 'The American Soldier' as Science." Commentary, November, 1947.Excerpt: [The Emperor Frederick II] wanted to find out what kind of speech and what manner of speech children would have when they grew up, if they spoke to no one beforehand. So he bade… More
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
– Riesman, David, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denny. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.The Lonely Crowd was first published in 1950 as a sociological analysis. The authors trace the development of the new middle class as the character of contemporary society shifts from… More
A Child’s Guide to a Parent’s Mind
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Child's Guide to a Parent's Mind by Sally Liberman Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1950.Excerpt: This book grew out of questions asked by young persons of seventeen to twenty-five as to why their parents were so impossible, and was written by a young woman who was graduated… More
Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Sociology Knows About American Jews." Commentary, 1950.Excerpt: The sociological study of American Jews should help us to find the answers to many of the questions about the nature of Jewish life that are continually being raised in private and… More
The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: The Authoritarian Personality in Profile." Commentary, June, 1950.Excerpt: Four years ago, this department reported on an approach to the study of prejudice which, it was predicted, held great promise for the future: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and R. Nevitt… More
‘Science is a Sacred Cow’ by Anthony Standen Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "'Science is a Sacred Cow' by Anthony Standen Reviewed." Review of Science is a Sacred Cow, by Anthony Standen, Commentary, August, 1950.Excerpt: From a distance, science looks as a whole like the secure, foolproof, intelligent, and eminently successful enterprise that it is only in part. Up close one discovers that the… More
The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can’t Do
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: What Opinion Polls Can and Can't Do." Commentary, 1951.Excerpt: Since 1948, public opinion polls have not been much in the public eye. The Great Miscalculation of 1948 drove them from their favored places in the daily newspapers, and the… More
The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: Why Jews Stay Sober." Commentary, 1952.Excerpt: In one respect, at least, the American Jews are not very different from the Israeli Jews who contemptuously dismiss them as assimilated goyim: neither have much use for hard… More
Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics
– Riesman, David, and Nathan Glazer. Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies In Character and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952.A follow up volume to the sociological studies of The Lonely Crowd, Faces in the Crowd further delves into questions of the individual and character. The work explores the place of… More
The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell
– Glazer, Nathan. "Review of The Future of American Politics, by Samuel Lubell," Commentary, July, 1952.Excerpt: Samuel Lubell’s The Future of American Politics is, in this reviewer’s opinion, the best book yet written on American politics of the last twenty years; and if a better… More
The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: More Insanity Than a Century Ago?" Commentary, 1953.Excerpt: The various social sciences, like all disciplines possessing an individual history and a corps of specially trained practitioners, ask their own questions, and answer them in their… More
The Study of Man: New Light on ‘The Authoritarian Personality’
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Study of Man: New Light on 'The Authoritarian Personality.'" Commentary, 1954.Excerpt: The Authoritarian Personality, published in 1950 as part of the Studies in Prejudice series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, stands as one of the most ambitious efforts… More
Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston’s Temple Israel
– Glazer, Nathan. "Four Rabbis in Search of American Judaism: Commentary on a History of Boston's Temple Israel." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: Temple Israel in Boston has enjoyed a succession of notable rabbis in its one hundred years of existence: Solomon Schindler, Charles Fleischer, Harry Levi, Joshua Loth Liebman, and… More
The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist’s Report
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America: I: A Sociologist's Report." Commentary, 1955.Excerpt: This is the first of two essays on American Jewry’s present religious revival, based on a series of lectures delivered by the author this past spring at the University of… More
The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side." Commentary, January, 1956.Excerpt: Last month we described the various pressures and patterns that have led to larger and larger numbers of American Jews joining religious institutions. More Jewish children today… More
Crestwood Heights by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Crestwood Heights' by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley Reviewed." Review of Crestwood Heights, by John R. Seeley, R. Alexander Simm, and Elizabeth W. Looseley, Commentary, November, 1956.Excerpt: “Crestwood Heights” is a well-to-do suburb of Toronto. I am not sure precisely how “well-to-do”—one of the problems of this book, indeed, is that just this kind of… More
American Judaism
– Glazer, Nathan. American Judaism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.Originally printed in 1957 and revised in 1988, Glazer’s American Judaism combines historical research with a sociological approach. Starting in the colonial period, Glazer studies… More
Rabbi in America by Israel Knox Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Rabbi in America', by Israel Knox Reviewed." Review of Rabbi in America, by Israel Knox, Commentary, March 1958.Excerpt: Rabbi in America is one of the volumes in the Library of American Biography series, edited by Oscar Handlin; and if, as one assumes, it is the only volume to be devoted to an… More
Alcohol and the Jews by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Alcohol and the Jews', by Charles R. Snyder Reviewed." Review of Alcohol and the Jews, by Charles R. Snyder, Commentary, June, 1958.Excerpt: The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies has been interested for a number of years in the remarkable differences in the rates of alcoholism among various ethnic groups in America. Thus,… More
New York’s Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community
– Glazer, Nathan. "New York's Puerto Ricans: Formation and Future of a New Community." Commentary, December, 1958.Excerpt: New York’s Puerto Rican immigrants, who have already established a community in the city larger than the population of Seattle or New Orleans, are a historical accident. When… More
“The Newcomers’, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis by Martin Segal Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Newcomers, by Oscar Handlin; Wages in the Metropolis, by Martin Segal Reviewed." Commentary, March, 1960.Excerpt: These are the third and fourth volumes of the New York Metropolitan Region Study, of which two volumes (Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon, and Made in… More
Studies in Housing and Minority Groups
– Glazer, Nathan and Davis McEntire. Studies in Housing and Minority Groups. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.Part of the Publications of the Commission on Race and Housing, Glazer, working alongside Davis McEntire published the volume comparing housing and minority groups in cities throughout the… More
The Nation’s Children Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "The Nation's Children', Edited by Eli Ginzberg Reviewed." Review of The Nation's Children, by Eli Ginzberg, Commentary, June, 1960.Excerpt: These thirty-one papers were prepared as background reading for the decennial White House Conference on Children and Youth held late in March in Washington, with a vast attendance… More
The Social Basis of American Communism
– Glazer, Nathan. The Social Basis of American Communism. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.In The Social Basis of American Communism, Glazer describes the groups targeted by the Communist Party for recruiting efforts and those making up the majority of its membership. He also… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel P. Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963.Beyond the Melting Pot is one of Glazer’s most well-known works. The book studies the role of the five largest ethnic groups of New York City in politics, economics, and culture. He… More
A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans
– Glazer, Nathan. "A Commentary Report: The Puerto Ricans." Commentary, July, 1963.Excerpt: If someone twenty-five years ago had looked around at the potential sources of new immigration to New York City, his eye might well have fallen on Puerto Rico, but he would… More
The Characteristics of American Jews
– Glazer, Nathan. The Characteristics of American Jews. New York: Jewish Education Committee Press, 1965.La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty – San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York', by Oscar Lewis Reviewed." Review of La Vida: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York by Oscar Lewis, Commentary, February, 1967.Excerpt: This enormous volume is presented as only the first of a series on Puerto Rican slum families in San Juan and New York. It will form an important part of the literature building up… More
Housing Problems and Housing Policies
– Glazer, Nathan. "Housing Problems and Housing Policies." The Public Interest, 1967.Excerpt: The question of what is “good housing” is never as simple as it appears. Primitive dwellings on Greek isles delight architects and city planners who are horrified by the… More
Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier', by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum Reviewed." Review of Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier by Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Commentary, August, 1968.Excerpt: “Lakeville” is a suburb of a Midwest metropolis, with a population of twenty-five thousand, a quarter of whom are Jews. It is an old suburb, which grew rapidly in the years… More
A New Look at the Melting Pot
– Glazer, Nathan. "A new look at the melting pot." The Public Interest, 1969.Excerpt: The major part of Beyond the Melting Pot by myself and Daniel P. Moynihan dates from 1960-61. It was in those years, at the end of Mayor Wagner’s second term, that the chapters… More
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan. Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970.In 1970, Glazer revised and reprinted his work Beyond the Melting Pot. The book compares the five largest ethnic groups of New York City, and uses them to study politics, economics, and… More
Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Social Policy, May/June 1970 Reviewed." Review of Social Policy, Commentary, August, 1970.Excerpt: Social Policy is a new journal devoted generally to social change, but specifically to a critical examination of the various agencies of social policy—in education, health,… More
Paradoxes of Health Care
– Glazer, Nathan. "Paradoxes of Health Care." The Public Interest, 1971.Excerpt: Some intriguing questions–indeed, mysteries–seem to arise when one examines the field of health care. I intend to present some data–the best available, to my… More
Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
– Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Moynihan, editors, Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.Along with Daniel Moynihan, Glazer both writes the Introduction and edited this work on modern ethnic identity. The essays cover studies in ethnic groups in nations around the world.
Prejudice
– Pettigrew, Thomas, George Fredrickson, Dale Knobel, Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda. Prejudice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.Glazer, along with his fellow authors, define and describe prejudice, while analyzing discrimination in America and the efforts to end it.
Ethnicity – North, South, West
– Glazer, Nathan. "Ethnicity - North, South, West." Commentary 73 (1982): 73-79.Excerpt: Twelve years ago, Daniel P. Moynihan and I, reviewing the condition of politics in New York City for the second edition of Beyond the Melting Pot, described two models of group… More
Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982
– Glazer, Nathan. Ethnic Dilemmas 1964-1982. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.Ethnic Dilemma’s encompasses a collection of Glazer’s essays from 1964 to 1982. These essays chronicle Glazer’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement’s goals,… More
The Limits of Social Policy
– Glazer, Nathan. The Limits of Social Policy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.Written in 1988, The Limits of Social Policy looks back at the social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, and how they went wrong in the 1980s with social scientists, politicians, and… More
New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society
– Glazer, Nathan. New Immigration: A Challenge to American Society. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1990.Part of the Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture Series, Glazer examines the social and political implications of immigration to the United States during the 1980s.
The case for racial preferences
– Glazer, Nathan. "The case for racial preferences." The Public Interest 135 (1999): 45-63.Excerpt: It rarely happens that answers to contested political questions can be found in a relevant body of data and empirical analysis. Certainly, a scarcity of data has long afflicted the… More
Culture and achievement
– Glazer, Nathan. "Culture and achievement." The Public Interest, 2000.Excerpt: The relationship between their cultures and the economic and political trajectories of nations and civilizations is now a major topic among analysts of the differences among… More
The American diversity and the 2000 Census
– Glazer, Nathan. "The American diversity and the 2000 Census." The Public Interest 144 (2001): 3-18.Excerpt: The 2000 census, on which the Census Bureau started issuing reports in March and April of 2001, reflected, in its structure and its results, the two enduring themes of American… More
Do we Need the Census Race Question?
– Glazer, Nathan. "Do we need the census race question?" The Public Interest 149 (2002): 21-31.Excerpt: A few years ago, asked to comment on the controversy over the demand of so-called multiracial advocacy groups for a “multiracial” category in the census, I made a brash and… More
The black faculty gap
– Glazer, Nathan. "The black faculty gap." The Public Interest, 2003.Excerpt: Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High-Achieving Minority Students, by the sociologists Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, has already aroused controversy.… More
Out of Africa: Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Out of Africa." Review of Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge by Jerry Gershenhorn, The New Republic, February 14, 2005.Excerpt: Melville J. Herskovits is best known today for his book The Myth of the Negro Past, which appeared in 1941, and argued that one could find among American Negroes… More
Training Teachers: The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Training Teachers." Review of The Trouble with Ed Schools by David F. Labaree, Education Next, Summer, 2005.Excerpt: Once long ago I noticed the great disparity between what theology and religion students were expected to know to write their theses—Latin, Greek, Hebrew, a few modern… More
Shame of the Nation: Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Shame of the Nation." Review of Separate and Unequal by Jonathan Kozol, The New York Times, September 25, 2005.Excerpt: Jonathan Kozol has been writing books rather similar to this one since “Death at an Early Age” in 1968. He is persistent, it is true, but so is the problem that has… More
Color Me Purple: Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock Reviewed
– Glazer, Nathan. "Color Me Purple." Review of Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School by Mica Pollock, Education Next, Winter 2006.Excerpt: Mica Pollock taught in a California high school for a year in the mid-1990s, then spent another two years in research in the same school as a graduate student in what appears to be… More
What Happened to the Social Agenda?
– Glazer, Nathan. "What Happened to the Social Agenda?" The American Scholar (2007).Excerpt: Seven years ago, I was asked to address the 1950 class of the Harvard Graduate School of Design at their 50th reunion in Cambridge. One sentence in the invitation from Robert… More
Cultural Exchange
– Glazer, Nathan. "Cultural Exchange." Review of The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness, and Hope by Claudia Kolker, Education Next, Fall 2013.Excerpt: “The Immigration Spring” reads the title of the lead editorial in the New York Times today as I write this review of The Immigrant Advantage. The Times is welcoming a rare case… More