The American sociologist Daniel Bell (born 1919) greatly influenced American political and economic thought through his books The End of Ideology and The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society. Born in Brooklyn in 1919 to Jewish immigrant parents,...

Born in Brooklyn in 1919 to Jewish immigrant parents, Daniel Bell was raised in New York's Lower East Side. Bell's early childhood was difficult. His father died when he was six months old and Bell's mother worked long hours in a factory to support...

When asked by Malcolm Waters, author of Daniel Bell: Key Sociologist (1996), what his biographical sketch should focus on, Daniel Bell replied, "The sky's the limit." No statement could be more accurate for this American sociologist and journalist who...

Daniel Bell (b. 1919) was born in New York City on May 10, to an immigrant Jewish family; though religion would later play a central role in his sociological theorizing, he considered his Jewishness to be ethnic rather than religious. He graduated from...

Daniel Bell (born 10 May 1919 in New York) is a sociologist and a professor emeritus at Harvard University. He is also a director of Suntory Foundation and a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bell graduated from City...

Having a conversation about ideas with Daniel Bell is a little like getting to rally with John McEnroe. Trying to keep up is hopeless, but it's exhilarating just to be on the court with him. Bell, the dean of American sociology, turned 80...

BEFORE Francis Fukuyama there was Daniel Bell, and the lesson of both is that it is dangerous to proclaim the end of things. Recent developments in Central Europe and the Soviet Union may appear to augur an end to history in the Hegelian...

A judge sentenced a man to 14 days in jail and his wife to community service for letting a group of teenagers drink alcohol the night of a crash that killed two of them.Jeffrey and Sara Hutsell, both 53 of suburban Chicago, were convicted of...

A judge sentenced a man to 14 days in jail and his wife to community service for letting a group of teenagers drink alcohol the night of a crash that killed two of them.Jeffrey and Sara Hutsell, both 53 of suburban Chicago, were convicted of...