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This article examines the significance of understanding the refugee experience as a product of the relationship between individual refugees and the larger social context or environment. It suggests that studies focusing upon such relationships, linking both micro and macrolevel data, could provide useful insights about refugee adaptation in varied contexts. To illustrate the usefulness of such an approach, an analysis of the effects of community structure upon the adjustment of a sample of Vietnamese refugees in America is presented.

Contents -- Introduction // William Alonso and Paul Starr -- The Sociology of Official Statistics // Paul Starr -- Part I. The Politics of Economic Measurement -- Chapter 1. The Politics of Comparative Economic Statistics: Three Cultures and Three Cases // Raymond Vernon -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Income Measurement // Raymond Vernon -- Chapter 3. Political Purpose and the National Accounts // Christopher Jencks -- Part II. The Politics of Population Measurement -- Chapter 4. The 1980 Census in Historical Perspective // Margo A. Conk

In an era of widespread and unsettling change in workplaces, families, and communities, most Americans yearn for a government that will take their side. The contributors to this bold and visionary book argue that America is ready for a progressive politics with substance and bite. They contend that by embarking on a popular progressive course, the Democratic Party can become the moral voice-and practical partner-of all American families striving for a better life.This provocative book is a dialogue among Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol, and other well-known thinkers. The contributors reject conservative answers to America's most pressing problems-fraying social ties, hard-pressed family life, sluggish economic growth, and widening gaps between the life circumstances of the most privileged and of everyone else. They discuss a renewal of the nation's social contract, suggest how to revitalize American democracy (not only by reducing the role of big money, but also by reconnecting people to politics), and explore how popular Democrats can fashion broad electoral alliances in the years to come. The Democratic party must undertake a new mission to champion the daily needs of Americans who work for a living, the authors maintain. In this period of change, America needs a government that does more, not less. By opting for a popular progressive course, Democrats can realign national debates and inspire a broad new electoral majority.Contributors:Alan BrinkleyMarc CaplanMichael C. DawsonJeff FauxMarshall GanzStanley B. GreenbergIra KatznelsonTheodore R. MarmorJerry L. MashawKaren M. PagetMiles S. RapoportMichael J. SandelTheda SkocpolPaul StarrMargaret WeirWilliam Julius Wilson