Quotes by David Riesman

David Riesman

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

America

Enthusiasm

Loss

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).

Numbers

Play

Taken

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

America

Chinese

Humorous

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

Frustrated

Jam

Men

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Manners

Mean

People

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Ifs

Remains

Roles

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Enjoy Life

Medicine

Want

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a “problem” because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

Attitude

Childhood

People

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Energy

Groups

Zest

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Class

Want

Way

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Artist

Attitude

Bankers

Car

Change

Childhood

Children

Chinese

Cities

Class

Communication

Community

Consumers

Culture

Debt

Doctors

Documentaries

Education

Empathy

Energy

Enjoy Life

Enthusiasm

Ethics

Freedom

Frustrated

Generations

Gossip

Groups

Hard Work

Helping

Hero

Humorous

Hype

Ifs

Indolence

Jam

Long

Looks

Loss

Majority

Manners

Mass Culture

May

Mean

Meaningful

Meaningful Work

Media

Medicine

Men

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Quotes by David Riesman

David Riesman

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a “problem” because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

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