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statements in this book are made in a conjectural form and based on personal
observations, these observations are often made by Sterner or by both
Sterner and myself.
Arnold Rose has prepared drafts for Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 on problems
connected with race and population, Chapter 22 on the present political
scene, Chapter 29 on the patterns of discrimination, Chapters 41 and 42 on
church and education, and Appendices 4, 7 and 8. He has also prepared
drafts for many sections of other chapters. For still other chapters he has
assembled data and filled in gaps. For the final formulation of the main
methodological analysis in Appendix 2 on facts and values in social science,
his contribution has been of great importance. He has read the manuscripts
of all parts and edited them. His editing work has included much more
than polishing the English. It has, rather, been a most conscientious
checking of basic data as well as of inferences, and a critical consideration of
arrangement, viewpoints and conclusions. Both his criticisms and
suggestions have, with few exceptions, led to changes in the final manuscript, and
many of these changes are important. His wide knowledge of the social
science literature and his sound judgment on methodological problems
have, in this critical work, been significant. When I delivered the
manuscript and departed from America, there was still a great deal of checking
to be done and gaps to be filled in for which he was responsible, as well
as for the proof reading. He also had to write Chapters 43 and 44, on the
Negro community and culture, and Sections 1 and 4 of Appendix 10. For
the present form of these two chapters and the appendix, Rose is himself
responsible.
About the contributions of both Sterner and Rose I want to add the
following. The size of the book, and still more the scope of the problems
involved, will make it understandable even to the reader who is not
himself familiar with many of the specific fields, that the work done has been
immense. We have had to dig deep into primary sources in many fields
of social science and a major part of this digging has been done by them.
The collaboration, which stretched ruthlessly over evenings and weekends,
has been a sheer pleasure to me, as I have felt more than I have ever
experienced before the stimulation of an ideal cooperation where we not
only added together the results of our labor but imagined that we in our
concerted endeavors sometimes reached higher than an arithmetical sum.
A similar outlook on the methodological problems of social science and a
mutually shared scientific curiosity in seeing our structure of hypothesis,
data, and conclusion rise, have given to our collaboration a spirit of
intellectual exploration which I will not soon forget.
To Miss Ruth Moulik, who has been our secretary and who will
continue to stay with the book until it has come through the press, we are
grateful for her skill and great devotion. Besides the responsibility for
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