Příchod postindustriální společnosti
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society

Summary/Abstract: A retro-review of the book: Bell, Daniel: The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books 1973, ISBN 0465012817, 9780465012817. It has been more than half a century since one of the most respected American sociologists, Daniel Bell, announced the end of classical industrial modernity and the advent of a completely new post-industrial society. He was reacting to a previous finding by economists that the number of persons employed in the tertiary sector exceeded the number of those employed in industry. Daniel Bell’s book is not significant for what the author claims about the newly emerging society, indeed almost none of his predictions came true. Nevertheless, in a sense, the book has not aged.It remains a witness of the atmosphere that pervaded the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was a period in which many still believed that new trends in technology and the economy would lead to the radical restructuring of society, solve a number of social problems and fulfil a wide range of highly-optimistic expectations.

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