Daniel Bell May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011 was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the inspect of post-industrialism. He has been mentioned as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era". His three best invited workings are The End of Ideology, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, in addition to The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
Bell is best asked for his contributions to post-industrialism. His most influential books are, The End of Ideology 1960, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism 1976, and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society 1973. Two of his books, the End of Ideology and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, were forwarded by the Times Literary Supplement as among the 100 almost important books in thehalf of the twentieth century. besides Bell only Isaiah Berlin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Albert Camus, George Orwell, and Hannah Arendt, had two books so listed.
In The End of Ideology 1960, Bell suggests that the older grand humanistic ideologies, derived from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are exhausted and that new more parochial ideologies will soon arise. With the rise of affluent welfare states and institutionalized bargaining between different groups, Bell maintains, revolutionary movements which aims to overthrow liberal democracy will no longer be able to attract the workings classes.
In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting 1973, Bell outlined a new rank of society, the post-industrial society. He argued that post-industrialism would be information-led and service-oriented. Bell also argued that the post-industrial society would replace the industrial society as the dominant system.
There are three components to a post-industrial society, according to Bell:
Bell also conceptually differentiates between three aspects of the post-industrial society: data, or information describing the empirical world; information, or the agency of that data into meaningful systems and patterns such(a) as statistical analysis; and knowledge, which Bell conceptualizes as the usage of information to take judgments. Bell discussed the manuscript of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society with Talcott Parsons previously its publication.
In The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism 1976, Bell contends that the developments of twentieth-century capitalism earn led to a contradiction between the cultural sphere of consumerist immediate self-gratification and the demand, in the economic sphere, for hard-working, productive individuals. Bell articulates this through his "three realms" methodology, which divides advanced society into the cultural, economic, and political spheres.
Bell's concern is that, with the growth of the welfare state throughout the post-war years, more and more of the population demand that the state fulfil the hedonistic desires which the cultural sphere encourages. That dovetails with the ongoing something that is required in advance for the state to manages the family of strong economic environment conducive to non-stop growth. For Bell, the competing, contradictory demands place excessive strain on the state that was manifest in the economic turbulence, fiscal pressure, and political upheaval characteristic of the 1970s.