Daniel Bell was an American sociologist known for his work describing post-industrial society. He argued that societies transition from industrial economies focused on manufacturing to post-industrial economies focused on services, information, and technology. Bell suggested this post-industrial society would be driven by white-collar, technical jobs rather than blue-collar work. Throughout his career, Bell studied and wrote about political ideologies, capitalism, and social change associated with emerging post-industrialism.

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Daniel Bell

2.  1. INTRODUCTION
 2. Daniel Bell’s Life
 3. What did he for sociology?
 4. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
 5. How was the his approach to sociology?
 6. Stressed Points
 7. Key facts
 8. References

3. He was born in 1919 in the Lower East
Side of Manhattan in New York City

4. Bell graduated from Stuyvesant
High School

5. City College of New York with a
bachelor's degree in science and social
science in 1938

6. studied for one year further
at Columbia University (1938–1939).

7. He spent most of the next twenty
years as a journalist, but ultimately
earned a Ph.D. from Columbia in
1960.
According to Universal Microfilm
International, Bell wrote a dissertation
entitled "The End of Ideology: On the
Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the
Fifties" for a Ph.D. in Sociology from
Columbia University. In 1960, it was
published in hardcover.

8. who described himself as a "socialist in
economics, a liberal in politics, and a
conservative in culture".
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.

10.  Sociologist Daniel Bell, who focused on the
dangers of focusing on yourself.
 He felt this focus on self weakened the
established values of hard work and
moderation and did not have a place in a
capitalist society.
 “It threatens the stability of the capitalist
system”.

11.  Capitalism is an economic and social
system in which participants privately own
the means of production -- called capital.
Free market competition, not a central
government or regulating body, dictates
production levels and prices.
 Privately owned industry caters to a
consumer sector that wants goods and
services of the highest value for the lowest
price. Competition forces companies to keep
prices low to attract consumers.

12. "Europe, in legend, has always been
the home of subtle philosophical
discussion; America was the land
of grubby pragmatism“
* an approach that evaluates
theories or beliefs in terms of the
success of their practical
application.

13.  His parents, Benjamin and Anna Bolotsky,
were Jewish immigrants originally from
Eastern Europe. They worked in the
garment industry.(made-up clothes)
 The Coming of 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.

14.  A post-industrial society is a stage in a
society's evolution when the economy shifts
from producing and providing goods and
products to one that mainly offers services.
 A manufacturing society is comprised of
people working in construction, textiles,
mills and production workers whereas in the
service sector, people work as teachers,
doctors, lawyers and retail workers.

16.  The post-industrial society is the stage of
society’s development when the service
sector generates more wealth than the
manufacturing sector of the economy.
 Labor force is majority service oriented
 White collar employment replaces blue
collar work
 Technological knowledge is key(Heavy
reliance on computers)
 A variety of social norms and values emerge

17.  The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in
Social Forecasting. He described the following
shifts associated with post-industrial societies:
 Production of goods (like clothing) declines and
the production of services (like restaurants) goes
up.
 Manual labor jobs and blue collar jobs are replaced
with technical and professional jobs.
 Society experiences a shift from focusing on
practical knowledge to theoretical knowledge. The
latter involves the creation of new, invention
solutions.

18. post-industrial society

19.  There is a focus on new technologies, how to
create and utilize them as well as harness
them.
 New technologies foster the need for new
scientific approaches like IT and
cybersecurity.
 Society needs more college graduates with
advanced knowledge who can help develop
and advance technological change.

20. post-industrial society

22. Daniel Bell was an American
sociologist, writer, editor, and
professor at Harvard University.

23.  He also received a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the American Sociological
Association in 1992, and the Talcott
Parsons Prize for the Social Sciences from
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1993

24. Bell lived in Cambridge, with his wife Pearl
Bell, a scholar of literary criticism. He died
at home on January 25, 2011.

25. Referenceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_A._Bell
 https://www.slideshare.net/isabellafassi5/marcuse-and-bell
 http://slideplayer.com/slide/4684213/
 http://slideplayer.com/slide/7879507/
 https://books.google.mk/books?id=l92JAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=daniel+bell+s
ociologist+biography&source=bl&ots=IcjpjrDF4h&sig=PUwMH9VUfqnXuTHfqCvbv5bI
FWw&hl=mk&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6j8LCkc7XAhWHKFAKHaqEANg4ChDoAQhXMAc
#v=onepage&q=daniel%20bell%20sociologist%20biography&f=false
 http://neamathisi.com/new-learning/chapter-3-learning-for-work/daniel-bell-on-the-
post-industrial-society
 http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-
biographies/daniel-bell
 http://biography.yourdictionary.com/daniel-bell
 https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/daniel-bell-american-sociologist
 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/06/daniel-bell/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bell
 http://newlearningonline.com/new-learning/chapter-3/daniel-bell-on-the-post-
industrial-society
 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Bell
 http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756384/obo-
9780199756384-0120.xml
 http://beta.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-daniel-bell-20110127-story.html
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Ideology

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