An edition of On the making of Americans (1979)

On the making of Americans

essays in honor of David Riesman

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An edition of On the making of Americans (1979)

On the making of Americans

essays in honor of David Riesman

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350

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On the making of Americans: essays in honor of David Riesman
1979, University of Pennsylvania Press
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On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman
October 1979, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Table of Contents

What is American about America?: Featherstone, J. John Dewey and David Riesman, from the lost individual to the lonely crowd. Gusfield, J. R. The sociological reality of America. Jencks, C. The social basis of unselfishness. Meyersohn, R. Abundance reconsidered. Sennett, R. What Tocqueville feared. Glazer, N. Individualism and equality in the United States. Cottle, T. J. An unemployed family. Kato, H. Development nineteenth-century style.
American institutions and subcultures-still changing: Gans, H. J. Symbolic ethnicity. Weiss, R. S. A new marital form. Berger, B. M. American pastorialism, suburbia and the commune movement. Denney, R. Feast of strangers. Trow, M. Aspects of diversity in American higher education. Grant, G. Journalism and social science.

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Bibliography: p. 319-346.

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Philadelphia, USA

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Dewey Decimal Class
309.1/73/092
Library of Congress
HN65 .O52, HN65.O52

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Pagination
xiii, 350 p. ;
Number of pages
350

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Open Library
OL4747098M
Internet Archive
onmakingofameric0000unse
ISBN 10
0812277546
LCCN
78065118
OCLC/WorldCat
4834611
Goodreads
667167

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OL18355274W

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