The Lonely Crowd was the book that analyzed the 1950s as a culture of conformity.
The Lonely Crowd is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney.
The Lonely Crowd is regarded to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. It provides a now-classic analysis of the “new middle class” in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our comprehension of the psychological, political, and economic issues that face the individual in contemporary American society.
