Abundance for what?. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Riesman.
• Authors: Riesman, David, 1909-2002
• Contents: Section I: The Impact of the Cold War, Preface, National Purpose, The American Crisis, Reflections on Containment and Initiatives, The Nylon War, Some Observations on the Limits of Totalitarian Power, The Cold War and the West: Answers Given in a Partisan Review Symposium, Section II: Abundance tor What?, Preface, Careers and Consumer Behavior, A Career Drama in a Middle-aged Farmer, Work and Leisure: Fusion or Polarity?, Leisure and Work in Postindustrial Society, Some Issues in the Future of Leisure, Sociability, Permissiveness, and Equality: A Preliminary Formulation, The Suburban Dislocation, Flight and Search in the New Suburbs, Autos in America, Abundance for What?, The Found Generation, Some Continuities and Discontinuities in the Education of Women, The Search for Challenge, Section III: Abundance for Whom? Preface, The Social and Psychological Setting of Veblen's Economic Theory, The Relevance of Thorstein Veblen, Self and Society: Reflections on Some Turks in Transition, The Oral Tradition, the Written Word, and the Screen Image, Section IV: Social Science Research: Problems, Methods, Opportunities, Preface, Law and Sociology, Tocqueville as Ethnographer, Introduction to Crestwood Heights, The Sociology of the Interview, Orbits of Tolerance, Interviewers, and Elites, Interviewers, Elites, and Academic Freedom, The Study of National Character: Some Observations on the American Case, Acknowledgments and Notes on Previous Publication, Index
• Edition: Revised and updated edition
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.0973; Quality of life -- United States; Wealth -- United States; Leisure -- United States; Social history -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000675788
• Related ISBNs: 9781000660067; 9781000667929; 9780429333866
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