The Lonely Crowd : A Study of the Changing American Character / David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riesman, David, Author.

Denney, Reuel, Author.

Glazer, Nathan, Author.

Series:

Veritas Paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American.

Ethnopsychology--United States.

Ethnopsychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxi, 308 pages)

Edition:

Abridged and Revised Edition

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

“One of the most important books of the twentieth century.”—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker Considered by many to be one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, The Lonely Crowd opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the problems confronting the individual in twentieth-century America. Richard Sennett’s new introduction illuminates the ways in which Riesman’s analysis of a middle class obsessed with how others lived still resonates in the age of social media. “Indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand American society. After half a century, this book has lost none of its capacity to make sense of how we live.”—Todd Gitlin

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Twenty Years After — A Second Preface

Preface to the 1961 Edition

Chapter I. Some Types of Character and Society

Chapter II. From Morality to Morale: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation

Chapter III. A Jury of Their Peers: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued )

Chapter IV. Storytellers as Tutors in Technique: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued )

Chapter V. The Inner-directed Round of Life

Chapter VI. The Other-directed Round of Life: From Invisible Hand to Glad Hand

Chapter VII. The Other-directed Round of Life (Continued): The Night Shift

Chapter VIII. Tradition-directed, Inner-directed, and Other-directed Political Styles: Indifferents, Moralizers, Inside-dopesters

Chapter IX. Political Persuasions: Indignation and Tolerance

Chapter X. Images of Power

Chapter XI. Americans and Kwakiutls

Chapter XII. Adjustment or Autonomy?

Chapter XIII. False Personalization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Work

Chapter XIV. Enforced Privatization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play

Chapter XV. The Problem of Competence: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play (Continued)

Chapter XVI. Autonomy and Utopia

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-25347-8

OCLC:

1147855287