The Lonely Crowd

Name: The Lonely Crowd
Author: David Riesman

by David Riesman

Sociological study of how Americans conform to peer pressure and social expectations

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David Riesman

American sociologist whose The Lonely Crowd distinguished between 'inner-directed' and 'other-directed' character types and identified the shift from one to the other in postwar American society. It became one of the most widely read works of sociology in American history.

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