On the making of Americans
Subtitle: essays in honor of David Riesman
By: edited by Herbert J. Gans ... [et al.].
Contributors: Riesman, David, 1909-; Gans, Herbert J.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Philadelphia, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Riesman, David, 1909-; National characteristics, American; Minorities -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Bibliography: p. 319-346.
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: 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.