Bell Daniel

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• The Coming of the Postindustrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting

  1 April 2005
  This predictive and substantiated statement provided a solid framework against which contemporary understandings of late modernity can still be tested. Bell’s venture touches upon a series of issues that remain important for understanding current socio-economic change and the insecurity that comes with it. One of the reasons why Bell’s work is still important is its remarkable insight regarding the gap between systems of beliefs and values and the fundamental parameters of socioeconomic organisation, stratification and sociality.