The end of ideology
Subtitle: on the exhaustion of political ideas in the fifties
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: Social sciences; History; Social conditions; Civilization
Notes: Bibliographical references included in Notes.
Table of contents: title: America: The ambiguities of theory; title: America as a mass society: A critique; title: The breakup of family capitalism: On changes in class in America; title: Is there a ruling class in America?; title: The power elite reconsidered; title: The prospects of American capitalism: On Keynes, Schumpeter, and Galbraith; title: The refractions of the American past: On the question of national character; title: Status politics and new anxieties: On the "radical right" and ideologies of the fifties; title: America: The complexities of life; title: Crime as an American way of life: A queer ladder of social mobility; title: The myth of crime waves: The actual decline of crime in the United States; title: The racket-ridden longshoremen: The web of economics and politics; title: The capitalism of the proletariat: A theory of American trade-unionism; title: Work and its discontents: The cult of efficiency in America; title: The exhaustion of utopia; title: The failure of American socialism: The tension of ethics and politics; title: The mood of three generations: The once-born, the twice-born, and the after-born; title: The loss of innocence in the thirties; title: Politics in the forties; title: Dissent in the fifties; title: Ten theories in search of reality: The prediction of Soviet behavior; title: Two roads from Marx: The themes of alienation and exploitation and workers' control in socialist thought.