The coming of post-industrial society : a venture in social forecasting /
Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011,
The coming of post-industrial society : a venture in social forecasting / Daniel Bell. - Special anniversary edition / With a new foreword by the author. - cv, 507 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Axial Age of Technology Foreword: 1999 -- Foreword: 1976 -- Preface -- Introduction -- From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society: Theories of Social Development -- From Goods to Services: The Changing Shape of the Economy -- The Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology: The New Class Structure of Post-Industrial Society -- The Subordination of the Corporation: The Tension between the Economizing and Sociologizing Modes -- Social Choice and Social Planning: The Adequacy of Our Concepts and Tools -- "Who Will Rule?" Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society -- Coda: An Agenda for the Future -- How Social Systems Change -- The Future of Science -- Meritocracy and Equality -- The End of Scarcity? -- Culture and Consciousness -- Name Index -- Subject Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
0465097138 9780465097135
99462446
Social history--20th century
Forecasting.
Social prediction
Industries--Social aspects
United States--Social conditions--1945-
303.49
The coming of post-industrial society : a venture in social forecasting / Daniel Bell. - Special anniversary edition / With a new foreword by the author. - cv, 507 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Axial Age of Technology Foreword: 1999 -- Foreword: 1976 -- Preface -- Introduction -- From Industrial to Post-Industrial Society: Theories of Social Development -- From Goods to Services: The Changing Shape of the Economy -- The Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology: The New Class Structure of Post-Industrial Society -- The Subordination of the Corporation: The Tension between the Economizing and Sociologizing Modes -- Social Choice and Social Planning: The Adequacy of Our Concepts and Tools -- "Who Will Rule?" Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society -- Coda: An Agenda for the Future -- How Social Systems Change -- The Future of Science -- Meritocracy and Equality -- The End of Scarcity? -- Culture and Consciousness -- Name Index -- Subject Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
0465097138 9780465097135
99462446
Social history--20th century
Forecasting.
Social prediction
Industries--Social aspects
United States--Social conditions--1945-
303.49