Editing Daniel Bell (section)

{{Short description|American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor (1919–2011)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Daniel Bell
| image             = Professor Daniel Bell.jpg
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1919|5|10}}
| birth_place       = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2011|1|25|1919|5|10}}
| death_place       = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
| field             = [[Sociology]]
| work_institutions = [[University of Chicago]]<br />[[Columbia University]]<br />[[Harvard University]]
| alma_mater        = [[City College of New York]] [[Columbia University]]
| doctoral_advisor  = 
| doctoral_students = [[Mustafa Emirbayer]]
| known_for         = [[Post-industrialism]]
| signature         = File:Daniel bell signature.png
}}
{{Conservatism US|intellectuals}}
'''Daniel Bell''' (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011)<ref>[http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/daniel-bell-harvard-u-sociologist-is-dead-at-91/30019 Daniel Bell, Harvard U. Sociologist, Is Dead at 91], ''The Chronicle of Higher Education]'', January 26, 2011</ref> was an American [[sociologist]], writer, editor, and professor at [[Harvard University]], best known for his contributions to the study of [[Post-industrial society|post-industrialism]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nieli |first1=Russell |title=Bell, Daniel (1919–2011) |journal=The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology |date=2017 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.1002/9781405165518.wbeos0906 |isbn=9781405165518}}</ref> He has been described as "one of the leading American intellectuals of the postwar era".<ref name="bio2"/> His three best known works are ''[[The End of Ideology]]'' (1960), ''The Coming of Post-Industrial Society'' (1973), and ''The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism'' (1976).<ref>''[http://www.economist.com/node/18061086?story_id=18061086 Ahead of the curve]'', Schumpeter, [[The Economist]], February 3, 2011</ref>