An edition of On the making of Americans (1979)

On the making of Americans

essays in honor of David Riesman

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On the making of Americans

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University of Pennsylvania Press
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English
Pages
350

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Subjects

Social conditions, American National characteristics, Minorities, Soziologie, Américains, Festschrift, Conditions sociales, Minorités, Geschichte, Sozialgeschichte, Kultur, Aufsatzsammlung, United states, social conditions, Riesman, david, 1909-2002, National characteristics, american, Minorities, united states

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David Riesman (1909-2002)

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United States

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20th century

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1979, University of Pennsylvania Press
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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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309.1/73/092
Library of Congress
HN65 .O52, HN65.O52

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xiii, 350 p. ;
Number of pages
350

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OL4747098M
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onmakingofameric0000unse
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0812277546
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78065118
OCLC/WorldCat
4834611
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