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Individualism reconsidered, and other essays
Title
Individualism reconsidered, and other essays / David Riesman.
Published
Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press, c1954.
Physical Description
529 pages ; 25 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Gray Social Thought 2336: Dust jacket. Autograph: Greetings and good wishes- David Riesman November, 1954. From the library of Bradford H. Gray.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
II. INDIVIDUALISM AND ITS CONTEXT : 1. Values in context
2. Individualism reconsidered
3. The ethics of We Happy Few
4. A philosophy for "minority" living
5. Some observations on community plans and utopia
6. The saving remnant
III. MARGINALITY, MINORITIES, AND FREEDOM : 7. Some observations on intellectual freedom
8. The "militant" fight against anti-semitism
9. Some observations concerning marginality
10. Marginality, conformity, and insight
IV. CULTURE: POPULAR AND UNPOPULAR : 11. Listening to popular music
12. Movies and audiences (with Evelyn T. Riesman)
13. Some observations on changes in leisure attitudes
14. New standards for old: From conspicuous consumption to conspicuous production
15. Recreation and the recreationist
16. Football in America: A study in culture diffusion (with Reuel Denney)
17. Bookworms and the social soil
18. How different may one be?
V. VEBLEN AND THE BUSINESS CULTURE : 19. The social and psychological setting of Veblen's economic theory
20. Some relationships between technical progress and social progress
VI. FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS : 21. The themes of work and play in the structure of Freud's thought
22. Authority and liberty in the structure of Freud's thought
23. The themes of heroism and weakness in the structure of Freud's though
24. Freud, religion, and science
VII. TOTALITARIANISM : 25. Some observations on the limits of totalitarian power
26. The Nylon War
VIII. PROBLEMS OF METHOD IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES : 27. Toward an anthropological science of law and the legal profession
28. Some observations on social science research
29. Some clinical and cultural aspects of the aging process
30. The meaning of opinion (with Nathan Glazer).
Subjects
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Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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