The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting
by Daniel Bell
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In 1976, Daniel Bell's historical work predicted a vastly different society developing--one that will rely on the "economics of information" rather than the "economics of goods." Bell argued that the new society would not displace the older one but rather overlie some of the previous layers just as the industrial society did not completely eradicate the agrarian sectors of our society. The post-industrial society's dimensions would include the spread of a knowledge class, the change from show more goods to services and the role of women. All of these would be dependent on the expansion of services in the economic sector and an increasing dependence on science as the means of innovating and organizing technological change.Bell prophetically stated in The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society that we should expect "... new premises and new powers, new constraints and new questions--with the difference that these are now on a scale that had never been previously imagined in world history." show lessTags
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Daniel Bell is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and director of the Suntory Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including the Tocqueville Award, the Talcott Parsons Prize for the Social Sciences, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association. David B. Truman was dean and provost/vice show more president of Columbia College. He is the author of The Governmental Process: Political Interests and Public Opinion and The American Assembly, the Congress and America's Future. show less
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- Canonical title
- The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting
- Original title
- The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting
- Original publication date
- 1973
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Economics, General Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature, Technology
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- 309.1 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology [Formerly: History of Social Science] No longer used [Formerly: Historical and geographical treatment]
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- HN17.5 .B38 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems.
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