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Abundance for what? : and other essays
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Title
Abundance for what? : and other essays / by David Riesman.
Published
Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., 1965, c1964.
Physical Description
xvi, 579 p. ; 19 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 1976 S17 A473: Paperbound
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 11, 2014
Series
A Doubleday Anchor book, A473
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Section I: THE IMPACT OF THE COLD WAR
Preface
National Purpose
The American Crisis
Reflections on Containment and Initiatives
The Nylon War
Some Observations on the Limits of Totalitarian Power
The Cold War and the West: Answers Given in a Partisan Review Symposium
Section II: ABUNDANCE FOR WHAT?
Preface
Careers and Consumer Behavior
A Career Drama in a Middle-aged Farmer
Work and Leisure: Fusion or Polarity?
Leisure and Work in Postindustrial Society
Some Issues in the Future of Leisure
Sociability, Permissiveness, and Equality: A Preliminary Formulation
The Suburban Dislocation
Flight and Search in the New Suburbs
Autos in America
Abundance for What?
The Found Generation
Some Continuities and Discontinuities in the Education of Women
The Search for Challenge
Section III: ABUNDANCE FOR WHOM?
Preface
The Social and Psychological Setting of Veblen's Economic Theory
The Relevance of Thorstein Veblen
Self and Society: Reflections on Some Turks in Transition
The Oral Tradition, the Written Word, and the Screen Image
Section IV: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH: PROBLEMS, METHODS, OPPORTUNITIES
Preface
Law and Sociology
Tocqueville as Ethnographer
Introduction to Crestwood Heights
The Sociology of the Interview
Orbits of Tolerance, Interviewers, and Elites
Interviewers, Elites, and Academic Freedom
The Study of National Character: Some Observations on the America Case.
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