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IN THE REVIEW

Three Authors in Search of a Proletariat

The Post-Industrial Society

by Alain Touraine

Critical Theory of Society

by Albrecht Wellmer
According to Alain Touraine: “A new type of society is now being formed. These new societies can be labeled post-industrial to stress how different they are from the industrial societies that preceded them…. They may also be called technocratic because of the power that dominates them. Or one can call …

Machines Without a Cause

Technological Change: Its Impact on Man and Society

by Emmanuel G. Mesthene

La Civilisation au carrefour

by Radovan Richta
In the space of a few decades men have attained, in great measure, a goal which was long anticipated and desired. They have become, in Descartes’ phrase, “the masters and possessors of nature.” A scientific and technological revolution, which continues at an accelerating pace, has already largely accomplished the substitution …

Has Sociology a Future?

The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology

by Alvin W. Gouldner

Recent Sociology No. 1

edited by Hans Peter Dreitzel
The “new sociology” was proclaimed some years ago. Growing mainly out of the work of C. Wright Mills, it was connected, through him, with the doctrines and movements of the New Left in the later 1950s and early 1960s. But just as the New Left grew old quite quickly and …

Conservative Man

Politics and the Social Sciences

edited by Seymour Martin Lipset

Student Politics

edited by Seymour Martin Lipset
“The year 1968 marks a watershed in the history of democratic mass politics: the quiet years of accommodation, integration and domestication were finally over, new waves of mobilization and countermobilization brought a number of Western democracies out of equilibrium, a new generation challenged the assumptions and the rhetoric of the …