Daniel Bell

Bell, Daniel - 1919–, U.S. sociologist. After 20 years as a journalist, he took a degree in sociology and went on to teach at Columbia and Harvard. He has written on contemporary capitalist society and the individual's place within it.

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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
by Daniel Bell. 366 pgs.

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Foreword: 1978

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction/ the Disjunction of Realms: a Statement of Themes

Part One: The Double Bind of Modernity

1: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

2: The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse

3: The Sensibility of the Sixties

4: Toward the Great Instauration: Religion and Culture in a Post-Industrial Age

Part Two: The Dilemmas of the Polity

An Introductory Note: from the Culture to the Polity

5: Unstable America: Transitory and Permanent Factors in a National Crisis

6: The Public Household: on Fiscal Sociology and the Liberal Society"

Afterword: 1996

Index
2.

The New American Right
by Daniel Bell. 239 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

The Contributors

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1: Interpretations Of American Politics

2: The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt

3: The Intellectuals And the Discontented Classes

4: The Revolt Against the Elite

5: Social Strains in America

6: The Polls on Communism And Conformity

7: The Sources of The "Radical Right"

Index
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The Coming of Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting
by Daniel Bell. 508 pgs.

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In 1976, when Daniel Bell first published The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, he predicted a vastly different world -- one that would rely upon an economics of information, as opposed to the economics of goods that had existed up to then. Bell argued that the new society would not displace the old one but rather overlay it in profound ways, much as industrialization continues to coexist with the agrarian sectors of our society.
In Bell's prescient vision, the post-industrial society would include the birth and growth of a knowledge class, a change from goods to services, and changes in the role of women. All of these would be based upon an increasing dependence on science as a means of innovation; as a means of technical and social change.
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society remains an important book for a whole new generation of politicians, economists, intellectuals, and students.

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Praise for the Coming of Post-Industrial Society

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The Axial Age of Technology Foreword: 1999

A Conclusion

Foreword: 1976

Preface

Introduction

Chapter I from Industrial to Post-Industrial Society: Theories of Social Development

Chapter 2: From Goods to Services: the Changing Shape of the Economy

Chapter 3 the Dimensions of Knowledge and Technology: the New Class Structure of Post-Industrial Society

Conclusion

Chapter 4 the Subordination the Corporation: the Tension Between the Economizing and Sociologizing Modes

Chapter 5 Social Choice and Social Planning: the Adequacy of Our Concepts and Tools

Chapter 6 "Who Will Rule?" Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society

Coda an Agenda for the Future

Conclusion

Name Index

Subject Index
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The Protestant Ethic, in World Policy Journal
by Daniel Bell. 5 pgs.

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The Good Liberal, in National Review
by James Nuechterlein. 3 pgs.

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Commentary, the Public Interest, and the Problem of Jewish Conservatism, in American Jewish History
by John Ehrman. 23 pgs.

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Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings ("The End of Ideology in the West" by Daniel Bell begins on p. 287)
by Charles Lemert. 674 pgs.

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"A rich, highly textured, historically sweeping, & strikingly inclusive collection that aims to reconstruct, perhaps for the first time, the actual dialogue of contemporary social thought." Jeffrey Alexander University of California at Los Angeles "Charles Lemert captures the surfacing of multiple theoretical voices in the postmodern era. No theory course should be without Social Theory." Steve Seidman State University of New York at Albany

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Introduction Social Theory

Part One: Modernity's Classical Age: 1848-1919

The Two Sides of Society

Estranged Labour

Camera Obscura

Class Struggle

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

On Imperialism in India

The Values of Commodities

The Fetishism of Commodities

Labour-Power and Capital

The Patriarchal Family

Anomie and the Modern Division of Labor

Sociology and Social Facts

Suicide and Modernity

Primitive Classifications and Social Knowledge

The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations

The Spirit of Capitalism and the Iron Cage

The Bureaucratic Machine

What Is Politics?

The Types of Legitimate Domination

Class, Status, Party

The Psychical Apparatus and the Theory of Instincts

Dream-Work and Interpretation

Oedipus, the Child

Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through

The Return of the Repressed in Social Life

Civilization and the Individual

Arbitrary Social Values and the Linguistic Sign

The Self and Its Selves

Split Lives in the Modern World

Double-Consciousness and the Veil

The Spirit of Modern Europe

The Yellow Wallpaper

Women and Economics

The Colored Woman's Office

The Stranger

The Looking-Glass Self

Part Two: Social Theories and World Conflict: 1919-1945

Action, Knowledge, Self

The New Liberalism

The Irrational Chasm Between Subject and Object

The Unit Act of Action Systems

What Is to Be Done?

The Sociology of Knowledge and Ideology

Psychoanalysis and Sociology

The Self, the I, and the Me

Social Structure and Anomie

Unavoidable Dilemmas

Moral Man and Immoral Society

The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue

Disorganization of the Polish Immigrant

Personality and Status Within the Gang

Art, War, and Fascism

A Room of One's Own

Intellectuals and Hegemony

Nonviolent Force: A Spiritual Dilemma

Identity, Struggle, Contradiction

The Japanese and the Americans

Part Three: The Golden Moment: 1945-1963

The Golden Age

On the United States and Containment of the Soviets

The End of Ideology in the West

Modernization: Stages of Growth

Action Systems and Social Systems

Sex Roles in the American Kinship System

Manifest and Latent Functions

The Structural Study of Myth

Semiological Prospects

Why Theory?

Doubts and Reservations

Character and Society: The Other-directed Personality

Youth and American Identity

On Face-Work

The Eccentric Self and the Discourse of the Other

Others Object

Woman as Other

Between Colonizer and Colonized

The Power of Nonviolent Action

The Sociological Imagination

Participatory Democracy (from The Port Huron Statement)

The Problem That Has No Name

Decolonizing, National Culture, and the Negro Intellectual

Part Four: Will the Center Hold? 1963-1979

Experiments at Renewal and Reconstruction

Change and the Planning System

Emancipatory Knowledge

Society as a Human Product

Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman's Standpoint

The Modern World-System

The State as a Janus-faced Structure

Breaking with Modernity

Toward a Reflexive Sociology

Repressive Desublimation

Reflexive Properties of Practical Sociology

Structures, Habitus, Practices

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Part Five: After Modernity, Since 1979

The Idea of the Postmodern

Whither Postmodernism?

The Postmodern Condition

Simulacra and Simulations: Disneyland

Reactions and Alternatives

Post-Modernity or Radicalized Modernity?

Radical Democracy: Alternative for a New Left

Foucault on Power: A Theory for Women?

The Afrocentric Idea

Postpositivist Case for the Classics

The New Social Structure and the New Social Science

E Pluribus Unum?

After Modernity

The New Cultural Politics of Difference

"Race" as the Trope of the World

The Cyborg Manifesto and Fractured Identities

Infinite Layers/Third World?

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination

The New Mestiza

Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing

Imitation and Gender Insubordination

Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism

The End of the Modern Era

Part Six: Searching for the Millennium

Future Social Science and the Invisible Elbow

Rethinking the Globalizing World

The Information Age

The Global Network

The City in a Globalizing World

The Global, the Local, and the Return of Ethnicity

The New Social Formations

Cultural Criticism and Telecommunications

Working Women in the Time Bind

The Productivity of the Closet

The Courage to Stand Alone

Final Notes: Where Does Reading End?

Acknowledgments/1999 Edition

Index
8.

The Crisis in Economic Theory (Chap. 4 "Models and Reality in Economic Discourse" by Daniel Bell)
by Daniel Bell, Irving Kristol. 222 pgs.

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The Crisis in Economic Theory

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Introduction

The Crisis in Economic Theory

Contributors

1: Toward the Next Economics

2: The Dissolution of the Keynesian Consensus

3: Monetarism and the Crisis in Economics

4: Models and Reality in Economic Discourse

5: Rational Expectations as a Counterrevolution

6: Microeconomics and X-Efficiency Theory: If There is No Crisis, There Ought to Be

7: The "Austrian" Perspective on the Crisis

8: General Equilibrium Theory

9: Real and Nominal Magnitudes in Economics

10: Post Keynesian Economics: Solving the Crisis in Economic Theory

10: Value and Capital in Marxian Economics

11: Rationalism in Economics

Index
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Is America Necessary? Conservative, Liberal, & Socialist Perspectives of United States Political Institutions ("Conservative: Daniel Bell. The Revolution of Rising Entitlements" begins on p. 21)
by Henry Etzkowitz, Peter Schwab. 658 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

Part One

1: Where Do I Stand?

Conservative

Conclusion

Socialist

Notes

Part Two

2: The Presidency

Conservative

Socialist

Notes

3: The Pentagon

Conservative

Socialist

4: The Secret Police

Conservative

Socialist

Notes

Part Three

5: Elite Clubs and Associations

Conservative

Notes

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6: Multinational Corporations

Conservative

Socialist

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7: Organized Crime

Conservative

Socialist

Part Four

8: Congress

Conservative

Socialist

Notes

9: The Courts

Conservative

Socialist

Notes

10: Regulatory Agencies

Conservative

Socialist

Notes

Political Parties

Conservative

Liberal

Conclusion

12: Academia

Conservative

References

Notes

Part Five

13: The Media

Conservative

Liberal

Notes

14: Banks

Conservative The Great Banking Retreat.

Socialist

Notes

15: Unions

Conservative

Notes

A Critical Issue

16: The Economic Crisis

Conservative

Socialist

Notes

Part Seven

17: Political Programs

Louis Banks. the Mission Of Our Business Society.

Ralph Nader and Donald Ross. Toward an Initiatory Democracy.

Stanley Aronowitz. On Organization: a Good Party Is Hard to Find.

Mass Parties and Reformism

Notes

Fred R. Harris. Up With Those Who'Re Down.

Part Eight

Appendix

Note

Index
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Individualism and Conformity in the American Character: Problems in American Civilization ("Daniel Bell: America as a Mass Society: A Critique" begins on p. 46)
by Richard L. Rapson. 100 pgs.

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Introduction

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The Clash of Issues

I. Tocqueville and The American Paradox

Ii. Sources of Individualism

The Moral Independence of The Cultivator of the Earth

Harriet Martineau: Conformity in the East And Individualism in the West

The Baron J. A. Graf Hubner: Individualism As A Function of Opportunity

Frederick Jackson Turner: the Frontier and Individualism

Iii. Sources of Conformity

James Bryce: the Fatalism of the Multitude

D. H. Lawrence: Negative Freedom

Iv: Recent Conceptions: Has The American Character Changed?

Daniel Bell:America as a Mass Society: a Critique

The Quest for the National Character David M. Potter

Two Ways of Life Francis L. K. Hsu

Seymour Martin Lipsetthe Unchanging American Character

Suggestions for Further Reading
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Reconsidering American Liberalism: The Troubled Odyssey of the Liberal Idea (Chap. 14 "Liberalism in Retreat: The Conservative Critique")
by James P. Young. 464 pgs.

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In a survey of American political thought unrivaled in its breadth, Young gives voice not just to Locke, Jefferson, and Madison but also to Rawls, Shklar, Kateb, Wolin, and Walzer. To the problems facing Lincoln and Dewey, he brings modern feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, and the current conservative backlash. Broadly informed, scrupulously fair, and marvelously clear, Reconsidering American Liberalism is a tour de force of historical exposition and contemporary analysis as well as significant contribution to the future of liberal thought.

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Preface And Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Role of Liberalism in American Politics

1: The Ambiguous Legacy of Puritanism

2: John Locke and the Theory of Liberal Constitutionalism

Conclusions

3: Liberalism, Republicanism, and Revolution

4: Liberalism, Republicanism, and the Constitution