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Summary Bell: The coming of post-industrial society
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The following summary provides a brief explanation of Bell's conceptualization of the post-industrial era.
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The coming of Post-IndustrialSociety
Daniel Bell
Explains that in the post-industrial society
Knowledge replaces material goods as the most important commodity for
production and exchange
Uses Post-industrial bc =
- To emphasize the interstitial (of, forming, or occupying interstices/ an
intervening space) and transitory nature
- Underline a major axial principle = intellectual technology
Post-industrial = socio-technical dimension of a society
- Capitalism = the socio-economic dimension
Confusion btwn capitalism and post-industrial
Marx = mode of production determines other dimensions of society
Thought industrialization (advanced feature of capitalism) would spread throughout
the world
There would global unity and the same conditions of life everywhere
Mod of production united social relations and forces of production
Social relations = property relations
Forces of production = technological
Bell:
Societies are not unified
The nature of the polity (society) does not rest the economic foundations
- But on the historic traditions on the value systems
- And the way in which power is concentrated or dispersed throughout
the society
- Western culture = modernism
⮩ That has been absorbed by the cultural mass and transformed
into materialistic society
⮩ Which is promoted by capitalism
Within a historical period, a certain principle becomes influential and effects other social
relations
⮩ Capitalist mode of social relations (private property, commodity production) ceame
the influential in the 19th century
- And shaped character and culture
⮩ Mistake = cant read the character of a society through a single concept
- To assume that there are laws of social development
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