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  • - A Study of the Changing American Character
    av Nathan Glazer, David Riesman & Reuel Denney
    224,-

    A study of 20th-century American society. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political and economic problems that confront the individual in society.

  • - The Work of Arius Didymus
    av David Riesman
    666,-

    This volume contains a study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. It elucidates stoic and perpatetic ethics for classicists and philosphers and provides textual analysis of important passages.

  • - A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery
    av David Riesman
    693,-

    This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants

  • av David Riesman
    1 444,-

    This classic collection of essays by Riesman discusses the implications of affluence in America. Riesman maintains that the question that should be raised by wealth has shifted over time from how to obtain wealth to how to make use of it.

  • av David Riesman
    2 117,-

    The Academic Revolution describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists, first in America's leading universities and now in the larger society as well

  • - A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery
    av David Riesman
    1 856,-

    This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants

  • - The Work of Arius Didymus
    av David Riesman
    2 188,-

    Providing the only full-length study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, this volume elucidates Stoic and Peripatetic ethics for classicists and philosophers.

  • av David Riesman
    627,-

    Without a full-scale history of US higher education, this guide describes the rise to power of professional scholars and scientists in US universities and society. The text also looks at some of the revolution's consequences and outlines a theory about the development and status of this phenomenon.

  • av David Riesman
    678,-

    This is a brilliant and unconventional study of one of the most challenging figures in modern social and economic thought. David Riesman has chosen a deliberately personal method of exposition and evaluation, and he is by no means a disciple. He says of Veblen: 'I find him more often interesting than attractive, more often pungent than wise.' By approaching Veblen subjectively and in a critical spirit, Riesman has arrived at an estimate of the man that is objective and balanced.Veblen's ideas and attitudes are carefully examined, with particular attention to his conviction that 'the instinct of workmanship' was the constructive element in life, and to his fundamental principle of 'idle curiosity.' Veblen is seen as a man with a passionate moral sense whose method was irony coupled with research. Riesman makes the interesting point that the author of The Theory of the Leisure Class was episodically a passionate, even revolutionary reformer, in contrast to a career primarily as an intellectual skeptic.Riesman looks behind the ideas, searching for their origins in Veblen's life, with the result that one finishes the book with a genuine sense of the strange man who is its subject. Riesman concludes that Thorstein Veblen is important not so much for his specific contribution to economic thought as for his stance toward the economy and his fellow economists. For us today, Riesman adds, Veblen's great value inheres in his way of seeing. The new introduction by Mestrovic provides an appreciation of Riesman, no less than Veblen.David Riesman is the Henry Ford II Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences at Harvard University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, and Johns Hopkins University. Among his most important books are The Lonely Crowd; Faces in the Crowd; Individualism Reconsidered; and Constraint and Variety in American Education. His collection, Abundance for What?, confirms his place as the foremost sociologist of education in the modern era.Stjepan G. Mestrovic is a senior social theorist in his own right. He is currently located at Texas A&M University, where he is a professor of sociology.

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