Editing Daniel Bell (section)

===Career===
Bell began his professional life as a journalist, being managing editor of ''[[The New Leader]]'' magazine (1941–1945), labor editor of ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' (1948–1958), and later, co-editor (with his college friend [[Irving Kristol]]) of ''[[The Public Interest]]'' magazine (1965–1973). In the late 1940s, Bell was an instructor in the Social Sciences in the college of the [[University of Chicago]]. During the 1950s, it was close to the [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]].<ref name=GuarObit /> Subsequently, he taught sociology, first at Columbia (1959–1969) and then at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] until his retirement in 1990.<ref name="bio1">Jumonville, Neil, ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FXT1LZBamAgC&pg=PT209 The New York intellectuals reader], Ch. 17 (2007) ({{ISBN|978-0415952651}})</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1964<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=May 30, 2011}}</ref> and a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Daniel+Bell&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

Bell also was the visiting [[Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions]] at [[Cambridge University]] in 1987. He served as a member of the President's Commission on Technology in 1964–1965 and as a member of the President's Commission on a National Agenda for the 1980s in 1979.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l92JAgAAQBAJ&q=Daniel+Bell+member+of+the+President%27s+Commission+on+Technology+in+1964%E2%80%931965+and+as+a+member+of+the+President%27s+Commission+on+a+National+Agenda+for+the+1980s+in+1979.&pg=PA149|title=Daniel Bell|last=Waters|first=Malcolm|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1134845569|pages=149|language=en}}</ref>

Bell served on the board of advisors for the ''[[Antioch Review]]'', and published some of his most acclaimed essays in the magazine: "Crime as an American Way of Life" (1953), "Socialism: The Dream and the Reality" (1952), "Japanese Notebook" (1958), "Ethics and Evil: Frameworks for Twenty-First Century Culture" (2005), and "The Reconstruction of Liberal Education: A Foundational Syllabus" (2011).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.antiochcollege.edu/news/archive/daniel-bell-noted-sociologist-and-advisor-antioch-review-dies|title=Daniel Bell, Noted Sociologist and Advisor to the Antioch Review, Dies &#124; Antioch College|website=www.antiochcollege.edu|date=9 August 2021|access-date=6 September 2017|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906181757/http://www.antiochcollege.edu/news/archive/daniel-bell-noted-sociologist-and-advisor-antioch-review-dies|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bell received honorary degrees from Harvard, the [[University of Chicago]], and fourteen other universities in the United States, as well as from [[Edinburgh Napier University]] and [[Keio University]] in [[Japan]]. He also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the [[American Sociological Association]] in 1992, and the [[Talcott Parsons]] Prize for the Social Sciences from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. He was given the Tocqueville Award by the French government in 1995.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHW2SbFze5IC&q=Daniel+Bell+Tocqueville+Award+by+the+French+government+in+1995&pg=PA54|title=Encyclopedia of Media and Communication|last=Danesi|first=Marcel|year=2013|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1442611696|pages=54|language=en}}</ref>

Bell was a director of Suntory Foundation<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UB8xDwAAQBAJ&q=Daniel+Bell++Suntory+Foundation&pg=PA321|title=The Reforming of General Education: The Columbia Experience in Its National Setting|last=Barnett|first=S. A.|date=2017-07-05|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1351475358|pages=321|language=en}}</ref> and a scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref name="GuarObit" />

Bell once described himself as a "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture."<ref name="quote">Gardner, Martin. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-gUUJ-IXf3UC&q=%22socialist+in+economics%22+bell&pg=PA4273 The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener], p. 427 (1999 paperback ed.)</ref>