was a major public intellectual as well as a sociologist and represented an early example of what sociologists now call "public sociology". American higher education In addition to his many other publications, Riesman was also a noted commentator on American higher education, publishing, with his seminal work, The Academic Revolution, which was co-written with Christopher Jencks. In it, Riesman sums up his position by stating, "If this book has any single message it is that the academic profession increasingly determines the character of undergraduate education in America." Riesman highlights the effects of the "logic of the research university," which focuses upon strict disciplinary research. That both sets the goals of the research university and produces its future professors. Riesman noted that the logic isolated any patterns of resistance that might challenge the university's primary purpose as disciplinary research, dashing their chances of success. See also List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 4) References Further reading Galbo, Joseph. "From the lonely crowd to the cultural contradictions of capitalism and beyond: The shifting ground of liberal narratives", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Winter 2004, Vol. 40 Issue 1, pp. 47–76 (Academia) Geary, Daniel. "Children of The Lonely Crowd: David Riesman, the Young Radicals, and the Splitting of Liberalism in the 1960s", Modern Intellectual History, November, 2013, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 603–633 Horowitz, Daniel. "David Riesman: From Law to Social Criticism". Buff. L. Rev. 58 (2010): 1005. online Kerr, Keith, Harden, B. Garrick and Marcus Aldredge. 2015. David Riesman's Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy, Ashgate. UK. Lee, Raymond M. "David Riesman and the sociology of the interview." Sociological Quarterly (2008) 49#2 pp. 285–307. McLaughlin, Neil. "Critical theory meets America: Riesman, Fromm, and the lonely crowd". American Sociologist (2001) 32#1 pp. 5–26. online External links Guide to the David Riesman Papers 1947-1982 at the University of Chicago Special Collections 1909 births 2002 deaths Anti-consumerists 20th-century American lawyers American people of German-Jewish descent Harvard Law School alumni Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States University at Buffalo faculty University of Chicago faculty Harvard University faculty Columbia University alumni William Penn Charter School alumni Harvard College alumni Members of the American Philosophical Society