IS YOUR MIND IN A TRAP? PART 2. How to develop more helpful beliefs. Write a list of some of the things you believe about yourself. They can be positive or negative. Usually people write a long list of negative things about themselves and overlook their positive qualities. Are you a winner or a loser? […]
Part two – The lonely Crowd, how the concept works today. If we look carefully we may still see glimpses of all three groups still operating in modern society. Various social forces and changes keep people moving through the two main groups, while the Tradition-Directed group still pops up, usually as part of a carefully […]
Are you part of “The Lonely Crowd”? The term “The Lonely Crowd”, was first used by a Harvard University sociologist named David Riesman in the 1950’s, who studied cultural differences emerging in parts of the American population after World War 2. Riesman’s research provided a complex picture of American middle, and upper middle-class culture at […]