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T HIS PAPER is concerned with a description of a series of cultural characteristics associated with four strata of the social structure in a Middle Western community of some io,ooo population,' which we shall hereafter call Elmtown.2 Elmtown is an all white community located near the center of the corn belt on a rich glaciated plain bisected by a navigable river. Its highly mechanized agricultural activities are integrated around corn and hogs, with the production of small grains and soy beans as secondary crops. Coal mines and three large factories give the community an industrial
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August B. Hollingshead (1947) studied this question.
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