"Die Anpassung wird nicht dadurch bestimmt, daß das äußerliche Verhalten eines Menschen den gesellschaftlichen Normen entspricht, sondern richtet sich danach, ob seine Charakterstruktur mit ihnen in Einklang steht."
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Die einsame Masse. Eine Untersuchung der Wandlungen des amerikanischen Charakters, Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1958, S. 254 (Übetragung aus dem Amerikanischen: Renate Rausch) - Erste deutsche Ausgabe, Darmstadt; Berlin-Frohnau; Neuwied a. Rh.: Luchterhand, 1956 - amerikanische Originalausgabe "The Lonely Crowd" (1950 mit Nathan Glazer und Reuel Denney).
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David Riesman
1909 – 2002
US-amerikanischer Soziologe
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