The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the new middle class in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era.
As accessible as it is acute, The Lonely Crowd is indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand American society. After half a century, this book has lost none of its capacity to make sense of how we live.Todd Gitlin
Praise for the earlier editions:
"One of the most penetrating and comprehensive views of the twentieth-century urban American you're likely to find."Commonweal
"Brilliant and original."Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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"[ P]ublished more than half a century ago . . . [ Riesman's book] remains . . . the best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history."Orlando Patterson, New York Times
"The Lonely Crowd .. . was published more than half a century ago. It remains not only the best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history, but arguably one that has had the widest influence on the nation at large. The work . . . inevitably raises questions about the claims and limitations of academic sociology today."Orlando Patterson, New York Times
"A book for anyone who believes that the economic, political, and psychological problems of our time demand social discovery and invention and who is interested in joining with a vigorous and provocative mind in the discovery."Helen Lynd, New York Post (on the earlier edition)
"As accessible as it is acute, The Lonely Crowd isindispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand American society. After half a century, this book has lost none of its capacity to make sense of how we live."Todd Gitlin
"Brilliant and original."Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (on the earlier editions)
"A stimulating and provocative book. . . . It is impossible to do justice in a review to the breadth and richness of the material."Margaret Mead (on the the earlier edition)
"Riesman has a spaciousness of outlook which brings great promise to American social theory. . . . His work is strewn with insights which make every page crackle as you read it."Max Lerner
Foreword xi Todd Gitlin Twenty Years After---A Second Preface xxi Preface to the 1961 Edition xxxiii PART I: CHARACTER Some Types of Character and Society 3(34) Character and Society 5(26) High Growth Potential: Tradition-directed Types 9(2) A Definition of Tradition-direction 11(2) Transitional Growth: Inner-directed Types 13(1) A Definition of Inner-direction 14(3) Incipient Decline of Population: Other-directed Types 17(2) A Definition of Other-direction 19(5) The Three Types Compared 24(1) The Case of Athens 25(3) Some Necessary Qualifications 28(3) The Characterological Struggle 31(6) From Morality to Morale: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation 37(29) Changes in the Role of the Parents 38(17) Parental Role in the Stage of Tradition-direction 38(2) Parental Role in the Stage of Inner-direction 40(1) Character and Social Mobility 40(2) Character Training as a Conscious Parental Task 42(2) Passage from Home 44(1) Parental Role in the Stage of Other-direction 45(1) Character and Social Mobility 45(3) From Bringing up Children to ``Bringing up Father 48(3) The Rule of ``Reason 51(4) Changes in the Role of the Teacher 55(11) The Teachers Role in the Stage of Inner-direction 57(3) The Teachers Role in the Stage of Other-direction 60(6) A Jury of Their Peers: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued) 66(17) The Peer-group in the Stage of Inner-direction 66(4) The Peer-group in the Stage of Other-direction 70(13) The Trial 71(2) ``The Talk of the Town: the Socialization of Preferences 73(8) The Antagonistic Cooperators of the Peer-group 81(2) Storytellers as Tutors in Technique: Changes in the Agents of Character Formation (Continued) 83(26) Song and Story in the Stage of Tradition-direction 85(2) Chimney-corner Media 85(1) Tales of Norm and ``Abnorm 86(1) The Socializing Functions of Print in the Stage of Inner-direction 87(9) The Whip of the Word 89(2) Models in Print 91(4) The Oversteered Child 95(1) The Mass Media in the Stage of Other-direction 96(13) The Child Market 96(3) Winner Take All? 99(5) Tootle: a Modern Cautionary Tale 104(3) Areas of Freedom 107(2) The Inner-directed Round of Life 109(17) Men at Work 111(5) The Economic Problem: the Hardness of the Material 111(4) Ad Astra per Aspera 115(1) The Side Show of Pleasure 116(7) The Acquisitive Consumer 117(2) Away from It All 119(1) Onward and Upward with the Arts 120(1) Feet on the Rail 121(2) The Struggle for Self-approval 123(3) The Other-directed Round of Life: from Invisible Hand to Glad Hand 126(15) The Economic Problem: the Human Element 127(10) From Craft Skill to Manipulative Skill 129(2) From Free Trade to Fair Trade 131(4) From the Bank Account to the Expense Account 135(2) The Milky Way 137(4) The Other-directed Round of Life (Continued): The Night Shift 141(22) Changes in the Symbolic Meaning of Food and Sex 142(7) From the Wheat Bowl to the Salad Bowl 142(3) Sex: the Last Frontier 145(4) Changes in the Mode of Consumption of Popular Culture 149(10) Entertainment as Adjustment to the Group 149(2) Handling the Office 151(1) Handling the Home 152(1) Heavy Harmony 153(2) Lonely Successes 155(1) Good-bye to Escape? 156(3) The Two Types Compared 159(4) PART II. POLITICS Tradition-directed, Inner-directed, and Other-directed Political Styles; Indifferents, Moralizers, Inside-dopesters 163(25) The Indifferents 165(7) Old Style 165(2) New Style 167(5) The Moralizers 172(8) The Style of the Moralizer-in-power 173(4) The Style of the Moralizer-in-retreat 177(3) The Inside-dopesters 180(8) The Balance Sheet of Inside Dope 182(6) Political Persuasions: Indignation and Tolerance 188(18) Politics as an Object of Consumption 190(2) The Media as Tutors in Tolerance 192(5) Tolerance and the Cult of Sincerity 193(2) Sincerity and Cynicism 195(2) Do the Media Escape From Politics? 197(3) The Reservoir of Indignation 200(4) ``In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 204(2) Images of Power 206(19) The Leaders and the Led 206(7) Captains of Industry and Captains of Consumption 207(6) Who Has the Power? 213(12) The Veto Groups 213(4) Is There a Ruling Class Left? 217(8) Americans and Kwakiutls 225(14) PART III: AUTONOMY Adjustment or Autonomy? 239(22) The Adjusted, the Anomic, the Autonomous 240(9) The Autonomous Among the Inner-directed 249(6) The Autonomous Among the Other-directed 255(6) Bohemia 258(1) Sex 258(1) Tolerance 259(2) False Personalization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Work 261(15) Cultural Definitions of Work 261(3) Glamorizers, Featherbedders, Indispensables 264(5) White-collar Personalization: toward Glamor 264(3) The Conversation of the Classes: Factory Model 267(2) The Club of Indispensables 269(1) The Overpersonalized Society 269(7) The Automat versus the Glad Hand 271(5) Enforced Privatization: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play 276(10) The Denial of Sociability 277(3) Sociability and the Privatization of Women 280(3) Packaged Sociabilities 283(3) The Problem of Competence: Obstacles to Autonomy in Play (Continued) 286(18) The Plays the Thing 286(4) The Forms of Competence 290(9) Consumership: Postgraduate Course 290(2) The Possibilities of Craftmanship 292(5) The Newer Criticism in the Realm of Taste 297(2) The Avocational Counselors 299(2) Freeing the Child Market 301(3) Autonomy and Utopia 304(5) Index 309
David Riesman is Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Nathan Glazer is emeritus professor of education and sociology structure at Harvard University. Reuel Denney was emeritus professor of English at the University of Hawaii. Todd Gitlin is professor of culture, journalism, and sociology at New York University and the author of The Sixties, The Twilight of Common Dreams, and two novels, most recently Sacrifice.
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