The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
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The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting (1973) is a book by Daniel Bell.
In it, Bell outlined a new kind of society, the 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.
There are three components to a post-industrial society, according to Bell:
- a shift from manufacturing to services,
- the centrality of the new science-based industries,
- the rise of new technical elites and the advent of a new principle of stratification.
Bell also conceptually differentiates between three aspects of the post-industrial society: data, or information describing the empirical world; information, or the organization of that data into meaningful systems and patterns such as statistical analysis; and knowledge, which Bell conceptualizes as the use of information to make judgments. Bell discussed the manuscript of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society with Talcott Parsons before its publication.
