Riesman, David. 1909-2002.

The lonely crowd : a study of the changing American character / David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney. - Abridged ed. with a new foreword. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1961. - 315 pages : 21 cm. - A Yale paperbound, Y-41 .

Includes index.

Contents: Some types of character and society -- From morality to morale: changes in the agents of character formation -- A jury of their peers: changes in the agents of character formation -- Storytellers as tutors in technique: changes in the agents of character formation -- The inner-directed round of life -- The other-directed round of life: from invisible hand to glad hand -- The other-directed round of life: the night shift -- Tradition-directed, inner-directed, and other-directed political styles: indifferents, moralizers, inside-dopesters -- Political persuasions: indignation and tolerance -- Images of power -- Americans and kwakiutls -- Adjustment or autonomy -- False personalization: obstacles to autonomy in work -- Enforced privatization: obstacles to autonomy in play -- The problem of competence: obstacles to autonomy in play -- Autonomy and utopia.


English

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National characteristics, American.
Ethnopsychology--United States.

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