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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 38 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Macat Library ; |
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Jarrod, Homer.
Macat Library. Spoken word ;
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Macat.com. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Riesman, David, 1909-2002. Lonely crowd -- Criticism and interpretation.
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National characteristics, American.
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Ethnopsychology -- United States.
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Macat.Com, .
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hoopla digital.
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| Cover Title |
David Riesman's The lonely crowd |
| ISBN |
9781912284566 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1912284561 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13751538 |
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