What book analyzed the 1950s as a culture of conformity?

In America in 1950s, conformity is not something new wherein all the people, young an old followed pre-set norms instead of striking and making things out of their own. It was the book of Sociologist David Riesman tha analyzed the 1950s as the culture of conformity. However, not all people in America conformed to such norms like the beats. The "beat generation" is made up writers that rebelled against athe cultural norms trying to emphasize spontaneity and spirituality, intuition over reason and even a lot more. They even defied the patterns of respectability shocking the entire culture.

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