David Riesman
David Riesman
David Riesmanwas a sociologist, educator and best-selling commentator on American society...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth22 September 1909
CountryUnited States of America
meaningful play meaningful-work
Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
mean groups hegemony
The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.
communication media gossip
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.
Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
men class different
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
industry mass media retailers
The mass media are the wholesalers; the peer-groups, the retailers of the communications industry