Author Question: In his 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd, sociologist David Riesman argued that Americans were A. ... (Read 44 times)

Zoey63294 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Michael Harrington's 1962 book, The Other America, focused on the problems of

A. McCarthyism.

B. racism.

C. sexism.

D. poverty.

E. the alienation of youth.

Question 2

During the 1950s, the American environmental preservation movement was mobilized by

A. the construction of a dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley at Yosemite National Park.

B. the diverting of water from Owens Valley to Los Angeles, California.

C. a proposed dam on the Green River in Echo Park, Utah.

D. the growing proliferation of nuclear power plants.

E. the nuclear incident at Three Mile Island.

Question 3

In his 1956 book on corporate America, The Organization Man, William H. Whyte Jr. contended

A. corporate wealth was not being fairly shared with workers.

B. women and minorities had little chance for advancement in American corporations.

C. a worker's most valuable trait in the corporate work setting was to get along and work as a team.

D. the ideal of rugged individualism had been reestablished in the business community.

E. the inner-directed man had become other-directed.

Question 4

In his 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd, sociologist David Riesman argued that Americans were

A. increasingly interested in winning approval from their family.

B. increasingly more concerned with winning approval in the community or larger organization.

C. both increasingly more likely to judge themselves on the basis of their own values, and increasingly interested in winning approval from their family.

D. increasingly more likely to judge themselves on the basis of their own values.

E. All these answers are correct.