Riesman, David /
David Riesman (1909-2002) was a public intellectual and sociologist best known for his opus The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (1950) coauthored with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney. Having sold over an estimated 1.4 million copies, this is likely the best-selling sociologic...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Qualitative pioneers of social research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | David Riesman (1909-2002) was a public intellectual and sociologist best known for his opus The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (1950) coauthored with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney. Having sold over an estimated 1.4 million copies, this is likely the best-selling sociological book in the discipline's history (Gans, 1998). Riesman was also the first social scientist on the front page of Time in 1954. Further immortalized in a 1967 song penned by Bob Dylan ("I Shall Be Released"), the published study was one of the first mid-century scholarly booksa listing including White Collar in 1958 and One-Dimensional Man in 1964viewed as critical evaluations of the post-World War II American society and culture. The study's publication, as with many of Riesman's academic ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529745788 1529745780 9781526421036 1526421038 |