Format:
350 S
ISBN:
0812277546
Content:
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.
Content:
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
,
English Studies
,
Sociology
Keywords:
USA
;
Soziologie
;
Festschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Riesman, David 1909-2002
