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On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman / edited by Herbert J. Gans ... [and others].

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
Gans, Herbert J.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
Riesman, David.
National characteristics, American.
Minorities--United States.
Minorities.
United States.
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Social conditions.
Genre:
Festschriften.
Physical Description:
xiii, 350 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.
Contents:
What is American about America?: Featherstone, J. John Dewey and David Riesman, from the lost individual to the lonely crowd. Gusfield, J. R. The sociological reality of America. Jencks, C. The social basis of unselfishness. Meyersohn, R. Abundance reconsidered. Sennett, R. What Tocqueville feared. Glazer, N. Individualism and equality in the United States. Cottle, T. J. An unemployed family. Kato, H. Development nineteenth-century style.
American institutions and subcultures-still changing: Gans, H. J. Symbolic ethnicity. Weiss, R. S. A new marital form. Berger, B. M. American pastorialism, suburbia and the commune movement. Denney, R. Feast of strangers. Trow, M. Aspects of diversity in American higher education. Grant, G. Journalism and social science.
Notes:
Bibliography: pages 319-346.
ISBN:
0812277546
OCLC:
4834611

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