David Riesman
David Riesman
David Riesmanwas a sociologist, educator and best-selling commentator on American society...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth22 September 1909
CountryUnited States of America
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men frustrated jam
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.
mean groups hegemony
The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.
communication media gossip
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
men class different
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
industry mass media retailers
The mass media are the wholesalers; the peer-groups, the retailers of the communications industry
zest acquisition leisure
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
meaningful play meaningful-work
Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
roles remains ifs
If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.
media people empathy
The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.
children cities people
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.
humorous america chinese
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
class want way
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
loss america enthusiasm
A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.