America: A Concise History - pg. 799-800
Showing posts with label The Lonely Crowd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Lonely Crowd. Show all posts
Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Lonely Crowd
The Lonely Crowd - a book by sociologist David Reisman. The Lonely Crowd (1950) was a major sociological study of the managerial (managers) class of workers in the USA in the post War World II. He concluded that the new corporate men were "other - directed," more attuned to their associates that driven by their own goals.
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