The coming of post-industrial society : a venture in social forecasting

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Title:

Author:

Bell, Daniel.

ISBN:

9780465097135

9780465012817

Personal Author:

Bell, Daniel.

Edition:

Special anniversary ed. / with a new foreword by the author.

Publication Information:

New York : Basic Books, c1999.

Physical Description:

cv, 507 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contents:

The Axial Age of Technology Foreword: 1999 -- Ch. 1. From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society: Theories of Social Development -- Ch. 2. From Goods to Services: The Changing Shape of the Economy -- Ch. 3. The Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology: The New Class Structure of Post-Industrial Society -- Ch. 4. The Subordination of the Corporation: The Tension between the Economizing and Sociologizing Modes -- Ch. 5. Social Choice and Social Planning: The Adequacy of Our Concepts and Tools -- Ch. 6. "Who Will Rule?" Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society -- Coda: An Agenda for the Future. 1. How Social Systems Change. 2. The Future of Science. 3. Meritocracy and Equality. 4. The End of Scarcity? 5. Culture and Consciousness.

Abstract:

"Published originally in 1973, Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society was the first book to identify the structural changes in American society leading to the Information Age."--BOOK JACKET. "Decades later, the term, the idea and the concept of the post-industrial society have assimilated into common usage, employed by the Unabomber, Margaret Thatcher and President Clinton. Yet the concept and its ramifications have often been misunderstood and in this anniversary re-issue of the original book, Professor Bell has added a new 30,000-word Foreword exploring the future developments of post-industrial society."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Social history -- 20th century.

Social prediction.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-

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Summary

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 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."