Thorstein Veblen, a Critical Interpretation
- 248 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
Book by Riesman, David
David Riesman Orden de los libros (cronológico)
22 de septiembre de 1909 – 10 de mayo de 2002
David Riesman fue un sociólogo y abogado estadounidense cuyo trabajo exploró los matices de la conformidad moderna. Distinguió célebremente entre personalidades "dirigidas internamente" y "dirigidas externamente", argumentando que la sociedad estadounidense de posguerra impulsaba cada vez más a los individuos hacia estas últimas. Esta presión social, ejemplificada por la vida suburbana, fomenta la búsqueda de aprobación externa y el temor al ostracismo comunitario. Irónicamente, esta búsqueda colectiva de pertenencia conduce a grupos de personas que, a pesar de su proximidad, luchan por encontrar una compañía genuina.
The Lonely Crowd was one of the most profoundly influential books of the time. Its now famous analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opens exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. "This book," the author writes, "is about social character and the difference in social character between men of different regions, eras, and groups. It 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. More particularly it is about 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 quite a different sort. Just why this happened; how it happened; what are its consequences in some major areas of life: this is the subject of this book."
Die einsame Masse
- 340 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Mit einer Einführung v. Schelsky, Helmut. N.-A.
