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Title:

On the making of Americans : essays in honor of David Riesman / edited by Herbert J. Gans ... [et al.].

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

1979

Description:

xiii, 350 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Riesman, David,--1909---Addresses, essays, lectures.
Minorities--United States--Addresses, essays, lectures.
National characteristics, American--Addresses, essays, lectures.
United States--Addresses, essays, lectures.--20th century--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Other Authors:

Gans, Herbert J.
Riesman, David, 1909-

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 319-346.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780812277548
0812277546

LCCN:

78065118

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)