David ReismanThinkers

The Consumer is the future occupation of all of today's children.

Etiquette is at once a means of approaching people and a means of staying clear of them.

Leisure is not a 'problem' in preindustrial society because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood.

The Lonely crowd is the pervading mass conformism (keeping up with the joneses) that accompanied the rise of the middle class in industrial America. Riesmann and his colleagues . ..

Mass entertainment is dominated by the mode of documentary realism.

The Media is not a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people but rather a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

Suburbia is a place that keeps children captive until they get access to a car, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

The Word is not something that only affects us temporarily... words change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.