Degree Year
1978
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Government
Advisor(s)
Harlan Garnett Wilson
Keywords
Post-industrial, Technocratic, Political authority, Society
Abstract
In this section, my objective is to provide a general overview of the concept of a post-industrial society. I am painfully aware of the fact that this involves not taking into account the oftentimes extreme difference among individual theories, in particular those which relate to the manner in which a specific characteristic of post-industrial society develops. However, at this point it is necessary that one get a feeling for what is common to the literature as a whole. I hope to ultimately demonstrate that "post-industrialism" in fact appears as the modern representative of a distant tradition of political thought. Specifically, I will argue that theories of post-industrial society implicitly entail what I refer to as a "technocratic" conception of the bases of legitimate political authority. But in order to do this one needs to have at least a general understanding of the nature of post-industrial society as envisioned by its theorists.
Repository Citation
Shabino, Allen, "Post-Industrialism and Normative Technocracy" (1978). Honors Papers. 725.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/725
