Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vladusic, Slobodan

Titel

Riesman's and Pekic's understanding of other directed type

Ist Teil von

• Sociološki preglad, 2012-04, Vol.46 (2), p.235-246

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This work represents comparative analysis of other directed type, in one sociological text (Lonely crowd of David Riesman) and one literal text (an extract from The Golden fleece, Borislav Pekic). The connection between Riesman's interpretation and Pekic resonance of this type of character is based upon consumer's psychology and initial phase of depopulation which are sinister phenomena of this social character. Difference between Pekic and Riesman is in degree of emphasising problem of discontinuity which appears together with withdrawal of inner directed type in favour to other directed type. Although he recognizes the appearance of discontinuity, Riesman does not pay much attention to this problem. Contrary to this, Pekic focuses himself exactly on this problem, questioning survival of community based on continuity, in the era in which the dominant role of directing other directed person is in hands of the others-friends/ media/cultural industry. The second important difference between Pekic and Riesman we find in Pekic's anxiety over the maintenance of democracy in era of other directed type's domination. Adapted from the source document.