Thorstein Veblen, a Critical Interpretation
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Book by Riesman, David
David Riesman was een Amerikaanse socioloog en jurist wiens werk de nuances van moderne conformiteit onderzocht. Hij onderscheidde op beroemde wijze tussen "innerlijk gerichte" en "ander gericht" persoonlijkheden, en betoogde dat de Amerikaanse samenleving van na de oorlog individuen steeds meer naar het laatste pushte. Deze maatschappelijke druk, geïllustreerd door het leven in buitenwijken, bevordert de zoektocht naar externe goedkeuring en de angst voor gemeenschappelijke uitsluiting. Ironisch genoeg leidt dit collectieve streven naar verbondenheid tot groepen individuen die, ondanks hun nabijheid, moeite hebben om oprechte kameraadschap te vinden.







Book by Riesman, David
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."
Mit einer Einführung v. Schelsky, Helmut. N.-A.