David Riesman Quotes about Culture

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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

David Riesman

Men, Culture, Debt

David Riesman (1966). “Individualism Reconsidered, and Other Essays”

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

David Riesman

Wife, Culture, Today

David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.156, Transaction Publishers

David Riesman Quotes about Culture

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