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"Parents today are the stage managers for the meetings of three- and four-year-olds, just as, in earlier eras, the adults managed marriages."
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David RiesmanA spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am so — David Riesman
"A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define “validity” as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people)."
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define “validity” as part of th
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David Riesman
David Riesman
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David Riesman was an American sociologist, educator, and best-selling commentator on American society.
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David Riesman was an American sociologist, educator, and best-selling commentator on American society.
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"[I]t is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise."
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"Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us."
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"The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference."
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"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."
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"Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them."
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