On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman edited by Herbert J. Gans ... [et al.]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gans, Herbert J.

Riesman, David, 1909-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Riesman, David, 1909-.

Riesman, David.

National characteristics, American.

Minorities--United States.

Minorities.

United States--Ethnic groups.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 350 p. ; 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: p. 319-346.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0812277546

OCLC:

4834611