Sociology of the Future: Theory, Cases and Annotated BibliographyConcerns itself with the future of sociology, and of all social science. The thirteen authors—among them Wendell Bell, Kai T. Erikson, Scott Greer, Robert Boguslaw, James Mau, and Ivar Oxaal—are oriented toward a redefinition of the role of the social scientist as advisor to policymakers and administrators in all major areas of social concern, for the purpose of studying and shaping the future. This book contains research strategies for such "futurologistic" study, theories on its merits and dangers, as well as an annotated bibliography of social science studies of the future. |
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Contents
| 6 | |
Wendell Bell and lames A | 45 |
Constructing the Past and Making the Future | 57 |
Some Images of the Future in Sociology | 107 |
The Myth of ValueFree Psychotherapy | 113 |
Continuities in Changing Expectations | 160 |
Images of Canadas Future in John Porters The Vertical Mosaic | 188 |
Images of American | 208 |
Images of the Future in Action | 235 |
Policy and the Urban Future | 259 |
Epilogue Wendell Bell | 324 |
A Selected and Annotated Bibliography | 339 |
viii | 429 |
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| Title | Sociology of the Future: Theory, Cases and Annotated Bibliography Publications of Russell Sage Foundation |
| Editors | Wendell Bell, James Wau |
| Edition | annotated |
| Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation, 1971 |
| ISBN | 1610440390, 9781610440394 |
| Length | 480 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Future Studies Social Science / General Social Science / Methodology |
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