The General Ideology of American Small Business

The ideology of the small businessman has much in common with the agrarian pre-industrial ideology of Jefferson. The belief in property, direct democracy, self-realization & independence are common elements of both. His agrarian spirit tends towards a provincialism & isolationism in contrast...

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Published in:Political science quarterly 1955-03, Vol.70 (1), p.87-102
Main Author: Bunzel, John H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agrarian Structures
Big business
Business
Business management
Business structures
Capitalism
Cities
Communities
Corporations
Economic concentration
Economic influences on politics
Economic institutions
Economic sociology
Enterprises
Entrepreneurship
Ideology
Individualism
Industrial management
Industrialism
Industry
Labour relations
organization and relations
Political Attitudes
Pressure groups
Rural Urban Differences
Small business
Small Businesses
Social structure
Socialism
sociological aspects
Sociology
Trade
U.S.A
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Summary:The ideology of the small businessman has much in common with the agrarian pre-industrial ideology of Jefferson. The belief in property, direct democracy, self-realization & independence are common elements of both. His agrarian spirit tends towards a provincialism & isolationism in contrast to Ur cosmopolitanism. He is a supreme individualist & his attitude to gov is akin to that of A. Smith: the less intervention the better. He looks upon property not in terms of impersonal trusts or banks, the power in which is delegated to hirelings; but in terms of personal enterprise in which power still rests in the hands of the proprietor. He has contempt for big business, & its 'unholy alliance' with big labor & big gov. (IPSA).
ISSN:0032-3195
1538-165X
DOI:10.2307/2145417