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Melvin M. Tumin

151

Works

6,222

Citations

20

h-index

32

i10-index

Research Topics

Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice School Choice and Performance Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Affiliations

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars1957–1957

City University of New York1972–1972

Princeton University1948–2010

University of Washington1973–1973

Brooklyn College1972–1972

Top Works

The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies.

Melvin M. Tumin,Marcell Mauss,et al.

19564,109 citations

Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies

Economic Theory and Institutions

Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces that have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools.

Melvin M. Tumin,Raymond E. Callahan

1963406 citations

The Managerial Revolution.

Melvin M. Tumin,James Burnham

1941220 citations

Some Social Functions of Ignorance

Wilbert E. Moore,Melvin M. Tumin

1949218 citations

Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis

Melvin M. Tumin

1953190 citations

Some Principles of Stratification: A Critical Analysis

Melvin M. Tumin

1953159 citations

Power, Politics and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills.

Melvin M. Tumin,Irving Louis Horowitz

1964152 citations

Social Stratification: The Forms and Functions of Inequality.

James M. Fendrich,Melvin M. Tumin

196854 citations

Culture Against Man.

Melvin M. Tumin,Jules Henry

196451 citations