1st Edition
Hidden Technocrats The New Class and New Capitalism
Edited By Hansfried Kellner
Copyright 1991
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
In the early 1970s many social scientists and critics noted the emergence of a new elite based in the "Knowledge Industry" and pitted against the old business-based middle class both politically and culturally. Because of its close ties to academia and the media, this New Class was conceived by both its critics and its proponents to be in an advantageous position to influence the rest of society.... Read more
Foreword, 1. Life-style Engineering: Some Theoretical Reflections, 2. The New Class: On the Theory of a No Longer Entirely New Phenomenon, 3. Modernizing Work: New Frontiers in Business Consulting (West Germany), 4. Unexpected Convergences: New Class, Maiket, and Welfare State in the World of Art (the Netherlands), 5. Symbolic Knowledge and Maiket Forces at the Frontiers of Postmodernism: Qualitative Maiket Researchers (Britain), 6. The New Class as Capitalist Class: The Rise of the Moral Entrepreneur in America (United States), 7. The New Class on the Periphery: Modernization, Professionalism, and Clientelism in Southern Italy (Italy), Notes, Bibliography, Contributors, Index
Biography
Hansfried Kellner
