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Book Review: The Black Community: Diversity and Unity

specialized context, which does not exist in this case. This kind of thing is a problem of the author's values as well as precision of language, and must be avoided. Substantively, the author ignores politics almost entirely, and this seems to me an important error of judgment. While he sees his work as an addition to the theory and methodology of social class, he really does not spend enough time on the question of class versus ethnicity in reference group behavior of this cohort, a problem in Gans' book also. He does, however, correctly argue that this cohort, and the American population group it represents, is a good deal less "ethnic" than popular contemporary writers such as Andrew Greeley would have us believe. This should have been pursued more fully. Similarly, he should have devoted more attention to the intriguing problem of working class versus lower class, in both cohort self-conception and in terms of analytical utility. He does deal with this question on a couple of occasions, but the theory of class in the United States waits for fuller development of this construct, as on that of class versus ethnicity. Finally, the author might have profited from more attention to historical writing on class in modem America. While he uses historians as sources for his purely "historical" sections, he underuses them in the body of the book. These are relatively minor criticisms. Generally, the book is informative, well done, and comprises a major contribution to the theory and understanding of social class in American life. It is truly interdisciplinary, as few such studies are. In its conceptualization, method and presentation it will remain, for some time, a model for parallel studies.