A consideration of the development and political, cultural, and psychological significance of the term "Chicano" and its correlates (other in-group and out-group terms), based on interviews with 31 activist leaders of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles during the latter part of 1968 and early 1969. (EH)

Reports the findings of a survey done in 1970 of heads of households in Metropolitan Toronto, in which they responded to an open-ended question concerning their own ethnic identity, after being given a rather broad definition of what was meant by an ethnic group. (Author/JM)

Poles settled in two major Detroit areas: the West Side settlement which took shape around St. Casimir's Church and developed westward along Michigan Avenue; and the larger East Side settlement which ran east-west on both sides of Canfield Street and then north. (Author/JM)

To find out how often social scientists use explicit definitions of ethnicity in their empirical research, 65 sociological and anthropological studies dealing with one or another aspect of ethnicity were examined; only 13 of these included some definition of ethnicity. (Author/JM)

Using historical data from the literature, the case of the early Polish Peasant immigrants to America is examined to illustrate the use of ethnic attachment as a key variable (in preference to simple ethnic group membership or class-status explanations), in understanding the development and change of cultural ideologies and their influence on…

It is suggested that the study of ethnic identity may rely on one of at least four theoretical frameworks: sociocultural, interactionist, group dynamicist; and psychoanalytic. For each of these frameworks the major assumptions and derived propositions are set forth and an illustrative example of the treatment of ethnic identity is discussed. (EH)