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On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman

Title
  1. On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman / edited by Herbert J. Gans [and others].
Published by
  1. [Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

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Additional authors
  1. Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
  2. Gans, Herbert J.
Description
  1. xiii, 350 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. United States > Social conditions > 20th century
  2. Minorities > United States
  3. National characteristics, American
  4. Riesman, David, 1909-2002
Contents
  1. What is American about America?: Featherstone, J. John Dewey and David Riesman, from the lost individual to the lonely crowd. Gusfield, J. R. The sociological reality of America. Jencks, C. The social basis of unselfishness. Meyersohn, R. Abundance reconsidered. Sennett, R. What Tocqueville feared. Glazer, N. Individualism and equality in the United States. Cottle, T. J. An unemployed family. Kato, H. Development nineteenth-century style.--American institutions and subcultures-still changing: Gans, H. J. Symbolic ethnicity. Weiss, R. S. A new marital form. Berger, B. M. American pastorialism, suburbia and the commune movement. Denney, R. Feast of strangers. Trow, M. Aspects of diversity in American higher education. Grant, G. Journalism and social science.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 319-346.