In the foreword to a reprint of one of his books he called himself a "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture," a statement in line with his belief that the techno-economic, the polity, and the culture were in an adversarial relationship with one another.
This man divided society into realms whose meanings and structures were each determined by a specific axial principle. He called the 1960s counterculture a "counterfeit culture" and saw it as an offshoot of the "porno-pop" that had replaced high modernism. In the foreword to a reprint of one of his books he called himself a "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture," a statement in line with his belief that the techno-economic, the polity, and the culture were in an adversarial relationship with one another. This man argued capitalism's success in producing material wealth had brought culture from the Protestant ethic to a hedonistic (*) "psychedelic bazaar" that undermined it. He predicted that future labor would be "a game between persons" rather than manufacturing physical objects in the post-industrial society. For 10 points, name this author of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
This man divided society into realms whose meanings and structures were each determined by a specific axial principle.
Daniel Bell