Daniel Bellby: Nathan Christopher D DominguezBorn on May 10, 1919American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.

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Bell is best known for his contributions to post-industrialism. His most influential books are The End of Ideology (1960), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973). In The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting , Bell outlined a new kind of society, the post-industrial society. He argued that post-industrialism would be information-led and service-oriented. Bell was a director of Suntory Foundation and a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Bell once described himself as a "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture."

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Post-Industrial SocietyApplication in Philippine setting

In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy. This is evident today in first-world countries, but not as evident in our country as we are still focused on manufacturing goods instead of knowledge; however with the implementation of the K-12 program we are slowly taking our first step to this kind of society.The people who are most benefitted by this kind of society are the new professionals who will be able to undergo a more advanced form of education which would hopefully put them on par as graduates from other countries. As we gradually increase the importance of knowledge for the next generation, it will also increase general expertise in our society thus leading to an uplift in economic growth.A shift of power to the younger, more educated generation who are more impassioned by liberalism, social justice, and environmentalism, as a result of their knowledge endowments, may also be attained.However this cannot be easily done in our country as it would take a lot of different measures and cooperation of all of our fellow countrymen to be able to achieve this type of society. As the requirements needed for this type of society are demanding enough that in our current state we would not be able to achieve it in just a few short years.