American social character : modern interpretations : from the '40s to the present /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
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[1992]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : On American character
- An anthropologist looks at America / Margaret Mead
- The American cast of mind / Ralph Barton Perry
- From inner-direction to other-direction / David Riesman
- The organization man / William H. Whyte
- Halloween and the mass child / Gregory P. Stone
- A changing American character? / Seymour Martin Lipset
- American women and the American character / David M. Potter
- American individualism in the twentieth century / David M. Potter
- The M-factor / George W. Pierson
- The pursuit of loneliness / Philip E. Slater
- The greening of America / Charles Reich
- The culture of narcissism / Christopher Lasch
- Searching for self-fulfillment / Daniel Yankelovich
- Individualism and commitment in American life / Robert N. Bellah et al.
- American values and organized crime : suckers and wiseguys / Peter A. Lupsha
- The control of anger / Carol Z. and Peter N. Stearns
- A Bibliography : Ideas and their background.