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unusual facts about David Riesman



The Lonely Crowd

The Lonely Crowd is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney.

The Society of the Spectacle

In thesis 192, Debord mentions some of American sociologists who have described the general project of developed capitalism which "aims to recapture the fragmented worker as a personality well integrated in the group;" the examples mentioned by Debord are David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd (1950), and William H. Whyte, author of the 1956 bestseller The Organization Man.

Yukio Ishizuka

Quoted in his references in Lifetrack Therapy are Abraham Maslow, Karl Menninger, Marie Jahoda, David Riesman amongst others.


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