The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

adult American anomie attitudes audience auton autonomy become behavior Chapter character structure character types characterological comics competence conformity conspicuous consumption consumer consumption cooperation course critics depending on inner-direction depending on tradition-direction directed earlier economic emotional Erich Fromm escape false personalization featherbedding feel frontiers glad hand goals gyroscope ical incipient decline indignation individual industrial inner inner-directed person inside-dopester interest invisible hand leaders leisure less live look Margaret Mead mass media means middle-class moral Moreover Negro nomic older opinion other-directed child other-directed person parents patterns Paul Lazarsfeld peer-group peers perhaps phase of incipient play political style possible pressure problems production psychological puritan relations role shift situation social character social class society dependent sphere story sumer Superman taste exchanging teacher thing tion tolerance Tootle transitional growth upper middle class veto groups young