David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study in the Changing American Character is one of the best-known books in the history of sociologyholding a mirror up to contemporary America and showing the nation its own character as it had never seen it before.
Above all, Riesman's book is a work of categorizationa form of interpretation that can be vital to building and communicating systematic arguments.
With the aid of his two co-authors (Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney), he defined three cultural types that formed a perfect pattern for understanding mid-century American society and the changes it was undergoing.
The clarity of the book's definitions tapped directly into the zeitgeist of the 1950s, powering it to best-seller status and an audience that extended far beyond academia.
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