Talk:David Riesman

Untitled
I disagree to put an article about one of the most eminent American social scientists in the law section because he passed a law school and then worked in the beginning of his career in a subordiante position at the US Supreme Court. If you look at any serious Encyclopedia, or even search at Google, you will find number of links of Riesman to sociology but not to law.

His good place in an encyclopedia depends, as I see, more from the content of his well-known books = in social sciences, and his later academic positions = in social sciences, than from his student years and his early professional career.

That's why I (and not only me) call him a sociologist.

I don't know who put a social scientist into the law category but will see in the coming weeks whether I can him put into a sociology category.

Majors Works by David Riesman
Democracy and defamation, 1941 The lonely Crowd: A study of the changing American Character, by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denny, 1950 Faces in the Crowd: Individual studies in Character and Politics, 1952 Thorstein Veblen: a Critical Interpretation, 1953 Individualism reconsidered, and other essays, 1954 Abundance for what? And other essays, 1965 The Academic Revolution, by Christopher Jencks and David Riesman, 1968 On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism, 1980--RKontessa (talk) 12:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Potential sources
czar 16:17, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * http://www.anb.org/articles/14/14-01157-print.html
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304193487_Riesman_David_1909-2002
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225930124_In_memoriam_David_Riesman_22091909-10052002
 * https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02698968?no-access=true
 * http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02732170802342982

Criticism
I agree with the contributor noted above writing under "Untitled", Riesman is a sociologist. His accomplishment is in the field of sociology. I would further urge that someone with greater knowledge of Riesman and his contribution take on a major rewrite of this entry. This is embarrassing for these little snippets to assume the place of an Encyclopedia entry. LAWinans (talk) 02:15, 5 January 2021 (UTC)