ISBN:
9781610440394
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 464 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Publications of Russell Sage Foundation
Parallel Title:
Print version Sociology of the future
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Social prediction
;
Social change
;
Sociology Methodology
;
Sociology ; Methodology
;
Social prediction
;
Social change
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword // Wilbert E. Moore -- Preface -- Part I. Images of the Future -- Images of the Future: Theory and Research Strategies // Wendell Bell and James A. Mau -- A Paradigm for the Analysis of Time Perspectives and Images of the Future // Wendell Bell, James A. Mau, Bettina J. Huber, and Menno Boldt -- Part II. Constructing the Past and Making the Future -- Sociology and the Historical Perspective // Kai T. Erikson -- Utopia Construction and Future Forecasting: Problems, Limitations, and Relevance // Henry Winthrop
Abstract:
Part III. Some Images of the Future in Sociology and Psychoanalysis -- The Myth of Value-Free Psychotherapy // Pauline B. Bart -- Images of Future Leisure: Continuities in Changing Expectations // William R. Burch, Jr. -- Images of Canada's Future in John Porter's The Vertical Mosaic // Menno Boldt -- In the Mirrors of Sociology: Images of American and Soviet Society // Paul Hollander -- Part IV. Research and Policy: Images of the Future in Action -- The Design Perspective in Sociology // Robert Boguslaw -- Policy and the Urban Future // Scott Greer
Abstract:
Images of the Future and Organizational Change: The Case of New York University // J. Victor Baldridge -- Methodology and the Quest for Utopia: A Case Study from El Dorado // Ivar Oxaal -- Epilogue // Wendell Bell -- Appendix -- Studies of the Future: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography // Bettina J. Huber
Description / Table of Contents:
Images of the future : theory and research strategies / Wendell Bell and James A. MauA paradigm for the analysis of time perspectives and images of the future / Wendell Bell [and others] -- Sociology and the historical perspective / Kai T. Erikson -- Utopia construction and future forecasting : problems, limitations, and relevance / Henry Winthrop -- The myth of value-free psychotherapy / Pauline B. Bart -- Images of future leisure : continuities in changing expectations / William R. Burch, Jr. -- Images of Canada's future in John Porter's The Vertical Mosaic / Menno Boldt -- In the mirrors of sociology : images of American and Soviet society / Paul Hollander -- The design perspective in sociology / Robert Boguslaw -- Policy and the urban future / Scott Greer -- Images of the future and organizational change : the case of New York University / J. Victor Baldridge -- Methodology and the quest for utopia : a case study from El Dorado / Ivar Oxaal -- Studies of the future : a selected and annotated bibliography / Bettina J. Huber.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references -- "Studies of the future: a selected and annotated bibliography," by B.J. Huber: pages [339]-454
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