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What book analyzed the 1950s as a culture of conformity? The Feminine Mystique On the Road The Lonely Crowd The Catcher in the Rye Howl

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The Lonely Crowd was the book that analyzed the 1950s as a culture of conformity.

The Lonely Crowd is a 1950 sociological analysis by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney.

The Lonely Crowd is regarded to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. It provides a now-classic analysis of the “new middle class” in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our comprehension of the psychological, political, and economic issues that face the individual in contemporary American society.

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It was "The Lonely Crowd" that analyzed the 1950s as a culture of conformity, but it should be noted that the book was published in 1950, so it was comment on that period in general.