Title: Individualism reconsidered :and other essays.
Authors: Riesman, David, 1909-2002
Publisher: Free Press,
Year: 1954
Subjects: Individuality; Social Environment; Culture; Psychology, Social; Social Sciences; Individuality; Social sciences
Contents: I. INTRODUCTION -- II. INDIVIDUALISM AND ITS CONTEXT : 1. Values in context -- 2. Individualism reconsidered -- 3. The ethics of We Happy Few -- 4. A philosophy for "minority" living -- 5. Some observations on community plans and utopia -- 6. The saving remnant -- III. MARGINALITY, MINORITIES, AND FREEDOM : 7. Some observations on intellectual freedom -- 8. The "militant" fight against anti-semitism -- 9. Some observations concerning marginality -- 10. Marginality, conformity, and insight -- IV. CULTURE: POPULAR AND UNPOPULAR : 11. Listening to popular music -- 12. Movies and audiences (with Evelyn T. Riesman) -- 13. Some observations on changes in leisure attitudes -- 14. New standards for old: From conspicuous consumption to conspicuous production -- 15. Recreation and the recreationist -- 16. Football in America: A study in culture diffusion (with Reuel Denney) -- 17. Bookworms and the social soil -- 18. How different may one be? -- V. VEBLEN AND THE BUSINESS CULTURE : 19. The social and psychological setting of Veblen's economic theory -- 20. Some relationships between technical progress and social progress -- VI. FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS : 21. The themes of work and play in the structure of Freud's thought -- 22. Authority and liberty in the structure of Freud's thought -- 23. The themes of heroism and weakness in the structure of Freud's though -- 24. Freud, religion, and science -- VII. TOTALITARIANISM : 25. Some observations on the limits of totalitarian power -- 26. The Nylon War -- VIII. PROBLEMS OF METHOD IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES : 27. Toward an anthropological science of law and the legal profession -- 28. Some observations on social science research -- 29. Some clinical and cultural aspects of the aging process -- 30. The meaning of opinion (with Nathan Glazer).