[lbo-talk] american individualistism

[shag carpet bomb]

was just going through my file of books/article to read, and happened 
across something i saved in 2004, an essay by anthropologist Claude Fisher, 
Was There a Moment (When Americans Became Individualists)?*

http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/rsfcensus/papers/Individualists.pdf

Fisher is actually providing an overview of a debate that animates 
historians, and not actually answering the question from a sociological 
perspective. thought folks might find it interesting.