Daniel Bell - Society Quotes

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Crime is a form of "unorganized" class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disproportionate number of crimes.

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The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.

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What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e. g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

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Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.

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The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous.

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Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

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