ISBN:
0812277546
Language:
English
Pages:
350 S
DDC:
309.1/73/092
Keywords:
Riesman, David
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National characteristics, American
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Minorities
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United States Social conditions 20th century
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Festschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Festschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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USA
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Soziologie
Abstract:
The condition of the United States and its citizenry are probed in a collection of essays addressing a wide range of issues including education, marriage, and ethnicity.
Abstract:
Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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
Note:
Festschrift David Riesman. - Bibliogr. D. Riesman S. 319 - 346
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