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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 study of post-industrialism. He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era".
May 9, 2024 · Daniel Bell (born May 10, 1919, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 25, 2011, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American sociologist and journalist who used sociological theory to reconcile what he believed were the inherent contradictions of capitalist societies.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 10, 2014 · A tribute to Daniel Bell, a sociologist and public intellectual who taught at Harvard from 1969 to 1990. He wrote influential books on the end of ideology, post-industrial society, and the cultural contradictions of capitalism.
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Jan 1, 2024 · Daniel Bell was a prominent sociologist, writer, and editor who coined the terms post-industrialism and end of ideology. He also contributed to the social indicators movement and the study of capitalism, culture, and modernity.
- Richard J. Estes
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Maybe more than any other intellectual of his generation, Daniel Bell was concerned with how to understand and define advanced industrial society, characterized in his terms by the “end of ideology” and the dawn of what he famously chose to label a new “post-industrial” stage of development.
Jan 26, 2011 · Daniel Bell, the writer, editor, sociologist and teacher who over seven decades came to epitomize the engaged intellectual as he struggled to reveal the past, comprehend the present and...
Jan 27, 2011 · A tribute to Daniel Bell, who died in 2011, and his influential books on ideology, post-industrial society, and capitalism. Learn about his career, achievements, and legacy at Harvard University.
