18 Facts About Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.

Daniel Bell has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era".

Daniel Bell was born in 1919 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

Daniel Bell received a PhD in sociology from Columbia in 1961 after he was permitted to submit The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, instead of a conventional doctoral dissertation.

Daniel Bell began his professional life as a journalist, being managing editor of The New Leader magazine, labor editor of Fortune, and later, co-editor of The Public Interest magazine.

Daniel Bell was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1964 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1978.

Daniel Bell was the visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University in 1987.

Daniel Bell received honorary degrees from Harvard, the University of Chicago, and fourteen other universities in the United States, as well as from Edinburgh Napier University and Keio University in Japan.

Daniel Bell received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association in 1992, and the Talcott Parsons Prize for the Social Sciences from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.

Daniel Bell was given the Tocqueville Award by the French government in 1995.

Daniel Bell was a director of Suntory Foundation and a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Daniel Bell argued that post-industrialism would be information-led and service-oriented.

Daniel Bell argued that the post-industrial society would replace the industrial society as the dominant system.

Daniel Bell discussed the manuscript of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society with Talcott Parsons before its publication.

Daniel Bell articulates this through his "three realms" methodology, which divides modern society into the cultural, economic, and political spheres.

Daniel Bell's concern is that, with the growth of the welfare state throughout the post-war years, more and more of the population demand that the state fulfil the hedonistic desires which the cultural sphere encourages.

In 1960, Daniel Bell married Pearl Kazin, a scholar of literary criticism, and sister of Alfred Kazin.

Daniel Bell died at home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 25,2011.