With nathan glazer (25 Ergebnisse)

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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1974
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1965
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Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
nathan-glazer-and-daniel-p-moynihan-with-the-assistance-of-corinne-saposs-schelling
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1965
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Ethnicity : Theory and Experience
Glazer, Nathan; and Daniel P. Moynihan (editors); with Corinne Saposs Schelling; Harold R. Isaacs; Talcott Parsons; Milton M. Gordon; Donald L. Horowitz; Daniel Bell; William Petersen; Andrew M. Greeley; William C. McCready; Martin Kilson; John Porter
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket, as issued. Third printing of the 1975 original. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976. 5.5" wide by 8.25" tall. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat, uncreased spine. From the rear cover: "This benchmark book launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning, manifestations, and significance of ethnicity in modern society. The distinguished authors offer a kaleidoscope of facts, ideas, and perceptions, and they tempt inquiring readers to speculations and observations of their own." The contributors are: Harold R. Isaacs; Talcott Parsons; Milton M. Gordon; Donald L. Horowitz; Daniel Bell; William Petersen; Andrew M. Greeley; William C. McCready; Martin Kilson; John Porter; Orlando Patterson; Francois Bourricaud; Milton J. Esman; Ali A. Mazrui; Richard Pipes; Jyotirindra Das Gupta; Lucian W. Pye. Edited, with introduction by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan. Index. . Third printing of the 1975 original. Soft Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket, as issued. ix, 531pp. . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…
Verlag: Yale University Press
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Verlag: Yale University Press January 1965, 1965
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Ethnicity: Theory and Experience
nathan-glazer-and-daniel-p-moynihan-with-the-assistance-of-corinne-saposs-schelling
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Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1953
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In den WarenkorbPaperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: no jacket (paperback). Abridged by the Authors. This paperback edition shows signs of age-related wear, including some edge wear and minor creasing on the cover. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean and free of inscriptions. Overall, the book is in good condition for its age, offering a sturdy reading copy of this important sociological work. …
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1965
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The Lonely Crowd: a Study of the Changing American Character
Riesman, David, In Collaboration With Reuel Denney And Nathan Glazer
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1956
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: UsedGood. Hardcover; 7th printing of a 1950 copyright; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number affixed to dust jacket spine; information about book taped to front endpaper; in good condition with clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows fading and shelf wear and is protected by a Mylar cover.…
Weitere BilderVerlag: Doubleday Anchor Books, Garden City, New York, 1953
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: no dust jacket visible. This softcover edition of "The Lonely Crowd" shows typical signs of wear for its age, including edge wear and minor creases. The binding remains intact, ensuring readability. There is no dust jacket, as it is a paperback format. Overall, the book is in good condition, suitable for reading and collection.…

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Zustand: Good. 8vo. softcover. 315pp. index. Good+. corners slightly bumped.
Weitere BilderEthnicity: Theory And Experience (Daniel Bell's book)
Edited with an Introduction by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan; Essays by Daniel Bell, Harold R. Isaacs, Talcott Parsons, Milton M. Gordon, Donald L. Horowitz, William Peterson, Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready, Martin Kilson, John Porter, Orlando Patterson, François Bourricaud, Milton J. Essman, Ali A. Mazrui, Richard Pipes, Jyotirindra Das Gupta, Lucian W. Pye
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (SD, NAP). This was Daniel Bell's book. He contributed an essay titled Ethnicity and Social Change. He did not write his name in the book. He did, curiously, put a parenthetical line beside two paragraphs in his own essay. He did this again only a few times, once on page 306 and 312, and twice on page 313. On the rear flap he wrote '1 +2-- Modernity', and referenced page 306 with the words 'Orlando structured' and page 313 with a word I can't make out. Orlando Patterson was the author of the essay, titled Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance, in which these pages appeared. Glazer and Bell went to college together and taught together. Here's a quote from Glazer's Wikipedia profile: 'When Glazer attended the City College of New York in the 1940s, it was known as a hotbed of radicalism. Glazer fell in with a number of other young Marxists who were hostile to Soviet-style communism. Glazer, Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and Irving Kristol would meet in an alcove of the City College cafeteria, and they spent their days trying to understand how the socialist ideal of political and economic justice had ended in Joseph Stalin's murderous tyranny. As Glazer would later recall, 'one of the characteristics of our group was a notion of its universal competence. Culture, politics, whatever was happening we shot our mouths off on. It was a model created by the arrogance that if you're a Marxist you can understand anything and it was a model that even as we gave up our Marxism we nevertheless stuck with.' Dr. Bell took very good care of the book. The edges and corners are in excellent shape. The spine looks very good, just a little crinkling at the top edge. The page edges are very clean. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are exceptionally clean. I'm not finding any soiling. I'm not finding any conspicuous creasing, no turned-down corners or placeholder creases. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And Dr. Bell's handful of penned margin lines represent the only writing to be found anywhere in the book. I've always had the dust jacket in a fitted protective cover. It looks very clean. I'm not noticing any tears. There's a very small loss at the top rear corner. There is a thin crease coming down from the rear top edge. The flaps are in very good shape, very clean, a couple of tiny crinkles. I've already noted the penned notes on the rear flap which also include '1975.' From the dust jacket: 'This volume launches a far-reaching exploration into the meaning, manifestations, and significance of ethnicity in modern society and politics. The authors seek neither to celebrate nor to deplore ethnicity, but rather to examine it as a basis of social organization which in modern societies has achieved a significance comparable to that of social class. Ethnicity indicates that minority groups around the world are no longer doing what society for hundreds of years has expected them to do-- assimilate, disappear, or endure as exotic, troublesome survivors. Instead, their numbers have expanded by immigration, their experiences and struggles mirrored to one another by the international mass media, minorities have become vital, highly conscious forces within almost all contemporary societies. Ethnicity has played a pivotal role in recent social change; it has evolved into a political idea, a mobilizing principle, and an effective means of advancing group interests.'.…
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
Daid Reisman in Collaboration with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1951, 1951
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good in green cloth with gilt titles on a burgundy spine label. 2nd Printing.

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paperback. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1968
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In den WarenkorbPaperback. Zustand: Very Good. 18th Printing. The hypothesis of this book is that there has been a change in the character of the American people, that where once men whose character was "inner-directed" dominated our society, the tendency is now toward the dominance of the "other-directed" character. The inner-directed persons are those who internalize adult authority - the pioneers, the individualist; the other-directed persons are those whose character is formed chiefly by the example of their peers and contemporaries. The substance of the book is concerned with the confluence and consequences of these two types in contemporary American society. ----------------- The cover is poor but the contents are complete, clean and bright. A reading copy. Size: Approx 5" Wide - 8" Tall. …
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition Second Printing stated (1953) in gilt-stamped olive cloth and price-clipped red and white dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, boards show light wear to tips & tops, jacket shows light soil, is chipped & edge worn with loss top edges with a creased tear bottom front panel, small neat name to endpaper edge, else clean tight nice copy (dj in mylar protector); thick 8vo; (xii) 751pp indexed.…
Weitere BilderVerlag: Yale University Press, 1950
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 386 pgs. Rubbing and wear on dark green cover boards at edges and top & bottom of spine. No highlighting or underlining. Some separation at back board and spine - but still intact. Clean.
Weitere BilderThe Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character.
RIESMAN, David (1909-2002), in collaboration with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer:
Verlag: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950., 1950
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. xvii, 386 pp. Original cloth. Signature of former owner on front flyleaf. Very Good, without dust jacket. Studies in National Policy 3.
Weitere BilderThe Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (1950 First Edition)
David Riesman in collaboration with Ruel Denney and Nathan Glazer
Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, 1950
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (SD, NAP). The Lonely Crowd, 'a landmark study of American character', is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. This is the genuine First Edition with '1950' on both the title page and the copyright page. 'In 1950, Yale University Press printed 3,000 copies of The Lonely Crowd, only to have to order thirteen additional printings before the book appeared in an abridged version as one of the first 'quality paperbacks' in the Anchor Books series, where it became an even greater success. I've rated this book Very Good. You can see the covers in the photographs. They are very clean. There are a few little white spots on the spine. The edges are in very good shape, just a a few tiny areas of fading of the green on the front bottom edge. All four corners have small, smooth spots of rubbing. There is also a little rubbing and crinkling at the spine ends, the top one seems like it has one teeny tiny tear. The page edges look very good. The book is solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I didn't see any soiling. That's also the case for the white inside covers and end papers. I'm also not finding any creasing. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. The dust jacket is in decent condition. I've had it in a fitted protective cover for as long as I've owned the book which goes back a good number of years. It is pretty clean. There are a couple spots of soiling on the rear cover. As you can see there are fairly small losses, one at the front bottom corner, one at the top edge of the spine and one at the bottom edge of the spine. There's also a small scuff at the front top corner. The flaps are in decent shape. There is a small, thin tear of the top edge of the front flap, not reaching the print. The front bottom corner is clipped. That's where the price was on this jacket. The sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz wrote that The Lonely Crowd was the most influential and widely read mid-century work of social and cultural criticism. It catapulted Riesman onto the cover of Time magazine in 1954, the first social scientist so honored. 'Writing in the post-World War II period, Riesman sought to understand what kinds of character structures were being encouraged by the social institutions of modern society, including capitalist corporations, political institutions, and the mass media. He proposed three different character types. The tradition-directed type was the product of unchanging societies in which social patterns were rooted in the past. The traditional character was rigid, insular, and not open to innovation. The development of industrial society, however, required a new character type. The 19th century saw the rise of what Riesman called the inner-directed type. This character received its essential structure in its youth, through strong family and community socialization. Unlike the traditional type, the inner-directed person could change and develop, but only following the direction of his or her inner gyroscope, whose essential pattern had been determined in youth. Riesman argued that in the mid-20th century the inner-directed type was being replaced by a new character type. Modern organizations demanded people who took their cues from what other people expected of them. These other-directed individuals used their social radar, rather than an inner gyroscope, to guide their values and actions. They preferred to be loved rather than esteemed. Their character was not shaped primarily by family or religion, but rather was strongly influenced by peer culture and the mass media.' Professor Riesman urged Americans to find 'the nerve to be oneself when that self is not approved of by the dominant ethic of a society.'.…

Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, 1952
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In den WarenkorbEarly printing of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. "[T]he best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history . . . [with] the widest influence on the nation at large" (Orlando Patterson, New York Times).…

Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, 1950
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In den WarenkorbFirst edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. "[T]he best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history . . . [with] the widest influence on the nation at large" (Orlando Patterson, New York Times).…

Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven, 1950
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In den WarenkorbFirst edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the the co-author Nathan Glazer on the title page, "The idea that men are created 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. (p. 373) Nathan Glazer March 11, 2015." In near fine condition, name to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Scarce and desirable signed. The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the 'new middle class' in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. "[T]he best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history . . . [with] the widest influence on the nation at large" (Orlando Patterson, New York Times).…