Saturday, January 22, 2022

Daniel Bell (American Sociologist)

(Sociology UGC NET Paper Lesson 24)

:- Daniel Bell was an American Sociologist | Writer | Editor & Professor at Harvard University

:- Born (10 May | 1919) | Manhattan in New York City

:- Died (25 January | 2011) | Cambridge | Massachusetts (United Nations)

:- He is best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism... He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era."

:- When he was 13 years old, the family's name was changed from Bolotsky to Bell.

:- (Magazine)
1. The New Leader
2. Fortune 
3. The Public Interest 

:- The Antioch Review | as a Board of Advisers 
1. "Crime as an American way of Life" (1953)   
2. "Socialism: The Dream and the Reality" (1952) 
3. "Japanese Notebook" (1958)
4. "Ethics an Evil: Frameworks for Twenty-first Century Culture" (2005)
5. "The Reconstruction of Liberal Education: A Foundational  Syllabus" (2011)

:- He also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association in 1992.

:- Daniel Bell once described himself as a "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture."

:- (Important Books) | (He wrote more than 25 Books) Three important books are :- 
1. The End of Ideology (1960)
2. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973)
3. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) 

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