Main entry:

Riesman, David, 1909-2002.

Title & Author:

The lonely crowd : a study of the changing American character / by David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney.

Edition:

Abridged and rev. ed. / with a foreword by Todd Gitlin.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2001.

Description:

lxxii, 315 pages ; 20 cm.

Series:

Yale Nota bene

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Todd Gitlin -- Twenty Years After -- A Second Preface -- Ch. I. Some Types of Character and Society -- I. Character and Society -- II. The Characterological Struggle -- Ch. II. From Morality to Morale: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation -- I. Changes in the Role of the Parents -- II. Changes in the Role of the Teacher -- Ch. III. A Jury of Their Peers: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued) -- I. The Peer-group in the Stage of Inner-direction -- II. The Peer-group in the Stage of Other-direction -- Ch. IV. Storytellers as Tutors in Technique: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued) -- I. Song and Story in the Stage of Tradition-direction -- II. The Socializing Functions of Print in the Stage of Inner-direction -- III. The Mass Media in the Stage of Other-direction -- Ch. V. The Inner-directed Round of Life -- I. Men at Work -- II. The Side Show of Pleasure -- III. The Struggle for Self-approval -- Ch. VI. The Other-directed Round of Life: from Invisible Hand to Glad Hand -- I. The Economic Problem: the Human Element -- II. The Milky Way -- Ch. VII. The Other-directed Round of Life (Continued): The Night Shift -- I. Changes in the Symbolic Meaning of Food and Sex -- II. Changes in the Mode of Consumption of Popular Culture -- III. The Two Types Compared -- Ch. VIII. Tradition-directed, Inner-directed, and Other-directed Political Styles: Indifferents, Moralizers, Inside-dopesters -- I. The Indifferents -- II. The Moralizers -- III. The Inside-dopesters -- Ch. IX. Political Persuasions: Indignation and Tolerance -- I. Politics as an Object of Consumption -- II. The Media as Tutors in Tolerance -- III. Do the Media Escape From Politics? -- IV. The Reservoir of Indignation -- V. "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" -- Ch. X. Images of Power -- I. The Leaders and the Led -- II. Who Has the Power? -- Ch. XI. Americans and Kwakiutls -- Ch. XII. Adjustment or Autonomy? -- I. The Adjusted, the Anomic, the Autonomous -- II. The Autonomous Among the Inner-directed -- III. The Autonomous Among the Other-directed -- Ch. XIII. False Personalization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Work -- I. Cultural Definitions of Work -- II. Glamorizers, Featherbedders, Indispensables -- III. The Overpersonalized Society -- Ch. XIV. Enforced Privatization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play -- I. The Denial of Sociability -- II. Sociability and the Privatization of Women -- III. Packaged Sociabilities -- Ch. XV. The Problem of Competence: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play (Continued) -- I. The Play's the Thing -- II. The Forms of Competence -- III. The Avocational Counselors -- IV. Freeing the Child Market -- Ch. XVI. Autonomy and Utopia.

Summary:

"The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300088655 (paperback)
9780300088656 (paperback)

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
University of South Alabama
National characteristics, American.
Ethnopsychology United States.
Ethnopsychologie États-Unis.
Ethnopsychology.
Gesellschaft
Individuum
Sozialstruktur
Sozialer Wandel
Nationalcharakter
Charakterbildung
Ethnopsychologie
Antropologia cultural e social.
Etnopsicologia.
United States.
USA

Added entries:

Glazer, Nathan.
Denney, Reuel, 1913-1995.
Yale Nota bene.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295221
Call No.: BIB 241327
Status: Available