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托夫勒、奈斯比特和贝尔等美国学者都预言了后工业社会的来临,并且对科学技术解决工业文明中人的价值失落诸问题表现了极大的乐观。芝加哥大学社会学系的詹姆斯·科尔曼教授尽管同样承认一场改变社会结构的革命正在进行之中,但却把深邃的目光投注在这一变革的实质及其存在的问题上。在《社会理论的基础》一书中,他认为,法兰克福学派所批判的工业文明诸病症依然存在,有必要创立一种“重建社会所需要的理论”,为人类未来谋福祉。其《社会理论的基础》因准
American scholars such as Tofflor, Nesbitt and Bell all predicted the advent of post-industrial society and showed great optimism about science and technology in solving the problem of human value loss in industrial civilization. Professor James Coleman, of the University of Chicago’s Department of Sociology, though deeply acknowledged that a revolution to change the social fabric is under way, focuses his deep attention on the substance of this change and its existing problems. In his book, “The Basis of Social Theory,” he believes that there are still many illnesses in the industrial civilization that the Frankfurt School has criticized. It is necessary to create a theory that “rebuilds the society and provides for the benefit of the human future.” Its “basis of social theory” due to the prospective