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David Riesman

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...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?


— David Riesman


#media #society #change

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.


— David Riesman


#become #both #created #different #each

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.


— David Riesman


#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

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


— David Riesman


#fullest #get #lives #medicine #our lives

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?


— David Riesman


#america #ask #create #fantastic #fraud






About David Riesman






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Riesman was a major public intellectual as well as a sociologist representing an early example of what sociologists now call "public sociology. This internal logic both sets the goals of the research university and produces its future professors. "


American higher education
In addition to his many other publications Riesman was also a noted commentator on American higher education publishing with his seminal work The Academic Revolution co-written with Christopher Jencks.

After graduating from Harvard Law School where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review Riesman clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis from 1935-1936. David Riesman (September 22 1909 – May 10 2002) was a sociologist attorney and educator. He also taught at the University of Buffalo Law School and at the University of Chicago.

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