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Riesman, David

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Riesman, David (1909-2002)

US sociologist, author of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (1950). He made a distinction among ‘inner-directed’, ‘tradition-directed’, and ‘other-directed’ societies; the first using individual internal values, the second using established tradition, and the third, other people's expectations, to develop cohesiveness and conformity within a society.



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