Politics and the Future of Industrial Society
Much analysis of current history is impeded by weak social theory and the way unanticipated events deflect "inevitable" trends. Advanced industrialized societies - which are relatively novel social institutions - are particularly vulnerable to projective analyses. The eight essays in this volume provide different approaches to "postindustrialism" in an array of societies, but offer little in the way of cross-cultural comparisons and nothing in the way of theoretical advance.
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