The lonely crowd : a study of the changing American character / David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney.
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TextSeries: A Yale paperbound, Y-41Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1961Edition: Abridged ed. with a new forewordDescription: 315 pages : 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): National characteristics, American | Ethnopsychology -- United States| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Stack | 136.4973 R44 1961 (Browse shelf) | Available | 3UCBL000015141 |
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.
General Education General Education : Philosophy
English
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