David Riesman

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David Riesman


Born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
September 22, 1909

Died
May 10, 2002

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Thorstein Veblen


David Riesman was an American sociologist, attorney, and educator.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review, Riesman clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis from 1935-1936. He also taught at the University of Buffalo Law School.

Riesman's 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd, a sociological study of modern conformity, which postulates the existence of the "inner-directed" and "other-directed" personalities. Riesman argues that the character of post WWII American society impels individuals to "other-directedness", the preeminent example being modern suburbia, where individuals seek their neighbors approval and fear being outcast from their community. This lifestyle has a coercive effect, which c
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The Lonely Crowd: A Study o...

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Individualism Reconsidered

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Thorstein Veblen

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On Higher Education: The Ac...

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The Lonely Crowd, Revised e...

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Constraint and Variety in A...

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The American City: A Source...

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Abundance for What?

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Selected Essays from Indivi...

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“...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it? ”
David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

“ Con người sinh ra đã khác nhau; họ đánh mất tự do xã hội và độc lập cá nhân của mình trong khi tìm cách trở thành giống nhau.”
David Riesman

“America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.”
David Riesman

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