Editing New class (section)

== John Kenneth Galbraith and post-industrial sociology ==
Canadian-American economist [[John Kenneth Galbraith]] also wrote about a similar phenomenon under capitalism, the emergence of a technocratic layer in ''[[The New Industrial State]]'' and ''[[The Affluent Society]]''. The new-class model as a theory of new social groups in post-industrial societies gained ascendency during the 1970s as social and political scientists noted how new-class groups were shaped by post-material orientations in their pursuit of political and social goals.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bruce-Briggs |first=B. |title=The New Class? |location=New Brunswick, NJ |publisher=[[Transaction Publishers]] |date=1979}}</ref> New-class themes "no longer have a direct relationship to the imperatives of economic security."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Inglehart |first=Ronald |title=The Silent Revolution in Europe: the intergenerational change in post-industrial society |journal=[[American Political Science Review]] |volume=65 |date=1971 |pages=991–1017 |doi=10.2307/1953494 |jstor=1953494 |s2cid=145368579 |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/302881/files/S0003055400137426.pdf}}</ref>