The lonely crowd
Subtitle: a study of the changing American character
By: by David Riesman with Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney.
Edition: Abridged ed. with a new foreword.
Series: A Yale paperbound, Y-41
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; Ethnopsychology -- United States.
Description: Discusses social character and the difference in social character between men of different regions, eras, and groups. Considers the ways in which different social character types, once they are formed at the knee of society, are then deployed in work, play, politics, and child-rearing activities of society. Discusses the way in which one kind of social character, which dominated America in the nineteenth century, is gradually being replaced by a social character of a different sort.