Books written by David Riesman
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On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism
The Alleged Death of Student Idealism Levinson's book analyzes a group of men at a particular midlife point, following them backward through careers in what is often a reconstruction of chance sequences. There appear to be timetables ...
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Thorstein Veblen
lawyers all around, including John Dean, the President's Counsel, and then Earl Krogh, Jr., Colson, and (outside the government) Herbert Kalmbach, and ever so many others.... When Tocqueville was here, he thought of the lawyers as ...
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Institutions and the Person: Festschrift in Honor of Everett C.Hughes
Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture explicitly attempted to demonstrate a single underlying theme in many sectors of a culture. David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd (New Haven, Conn.
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The American City: A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery
Harold Goldblatt, a sociologist, gives an illuminating analysis of the many dilemmas that confront the interested parties to renewal programs, like the AdamsMorgan program undertaken recently in Washington, D.C. Adams-Morgan confronted ...
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Abundance for What?
For a haunting, wide-ranging discussion of what we do and what we should owe to one another in the overlapping, contradictory, and not always concentric circles of our engagement with society, see Alan Wolfe, Whose Keeper?
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The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
"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
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The Academic Revolution
... Michael Novak of Stanford University, Michael True of Assumption College, Edward Wakin of Fordham University, and Sister Mary William, I.H.M., of Immaculate Heart College for critical comments on earlier drafts.
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The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
After half a century, this book has lost none of its capacity to make sense of how we live.”—Todd Gitlin
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La folla solitaria
La folla solitaria
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To monachiko plēthos
To monachiko plēthos
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La folla solitaria
La folla solitaria
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The University and the New World: York University Invitation Lecture Series
This is the first volume in the Invitation Lecture Series of York University and it is an auspicious beginning.
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The Academic Revolution
He is the author of Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass, The Homeless, and co-editor of The Black-White Text Score Gap. David Riesman is Henry Ford II Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Harvard University.
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Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
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The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College
The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College
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Institutions and the Person: Festschrift in Honor of Everett C.Hughes
The book as a whole provides a distinguished and representative sampling of a major stream of contemporary sociological thought. Each of the five main divisions in the book covers one aspect of Hughes' work.
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The University and the New World: York University Invitation Lecture Series
"Cover"--"Contents"--"Foreword" -- "The Idea of a University Once More" -- "Experiments in Higher Education
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Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Interpretation
Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Interpretation
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Academic Transformation: Seventeen Institutions Under Pressure
Academic Transformation: Seventeen Institutions Under Pressure
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Academic Values and Mass Education
Academic Values and Mass Education