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• The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

  David Riesman

  Work, Artist, Class

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  David Riesman

  Attitude, People, Childhood

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

  David Riesman

  Work, May, Helping

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.176, Transaction Publishers

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• 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).

  David Riesman

  Taken, Play, Numbers

  David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”

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• There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

  David Riesman

  Hero, Class, Community

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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• Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

  David Riesman

  America, Long, Documentaries

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.220, Transaction Publishers

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• One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society.

  David Riesman

  Children, Cities, People

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.263, Transaction Publishers

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