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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.

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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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