LEADER 00000nim a22004935a 4500 003 MWT 005 20220329035325.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 210326s2016 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781912284566 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1912284561 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ dra_9781912284566_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT13751538 037 13751538|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Homer, Jarrod,|eauthor. 245 12 A Macat analysis of David Riesman's The lonely crowd :|ba study of the changing American character|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cJarrod Homer. 246 14 David Riesman's The lonely crowd 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bMacat,|c2016. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 38 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 490 1 Macat Library ; 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Macat.com. 520 American lawyer-turned-sociologist David Riesman published his first book, The Lonely Crowd, in 1950. Aimed at academics, it nonetheless gained a large popular audience. In it, Riesman explores the links between social character -the ways in which members of a society are similar to one another-and social structures. He argues that as the United States became predominantly consumer-driven, rather than production-driven-particularly after World War II- American social character changed. Riesman said that prewar Americans had been largely inner-directed: they based their behavior on their own internal values and beliefs. Postwar Americans were becoming other-directed, with external groups including peers and the media now a key influence on the way they behaved. Riesman was observing, rather than judging, this change. The public, however, read his book as a criticism of the United States' newly developing social character. Riesman's work popularized sociology, helping to establish it as an academic discipline, and today it provides a fascinating window into the 1950s American psyche. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Riesman, David,|d1909-2002.|tLonely crowd|xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 National characteristics, American. 650 0 Ethnopsychology|zUnited States. 700 1 Macat.Com, . 710 2 hoopla digital. 800 1 Jarrod, Homer.|tMacat Library.|sSpoken word ; 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13744229?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ dra_9781912284566_180.jpeg