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
class want way
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
work artist class
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
hero class community
There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community
men class different
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
work may helping
Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.
car bankers hours
The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.
men culture debt
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.
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.
wife culture today
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.
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.
occupation today consumers
Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
looks sentences seems
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
may novelty triviality
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
taken men america
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?