ABSTRACT
from his peasant community, a primary organization such as we have just described, the immigrant comes to a society in a secondary stage of organization in America, based on business enterprise and represented by the state. Actually, the individual, or the family, almost invariably comes to friends and finds some sort of primary group awaiting him here. If he is a Pole, he settles among Poles, and so with the other races. But this new community is only a loose aggregation of acquaintances, not a complete organization, and, moreover, its members have themselves changed in America. They usually take charge of the newcomer, perhaps board him, and instruct him in American customs until “the green has worn off”—“ausgegrünt” as the Jews express it.
