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Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution Bernard Rosen

Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution By Bernard Rosen

Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution by Bernard Rosen


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The second great transformation of our society in the modern era has demoted manufacturing to a position that is secondary to the service industries, thus originating today's information society.

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Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution: Psychosocial Change and Its Discontents by Bernard Rosen

The second great transformation of our society in the modern era has demoted manufacturing to a position that is secondary to the service industries, thus originating today's information society. This volume examines how massive social change over the past few decades has created a new set of winners and losers and what this has done to society. The author rejects the orthodox explanations for the losers' plight-such as job stagnation, income inequality, and an increase in crime and violence-and argues that the main causes of success or failure in today's society are psychosocial. While today's losers lack the character structure and values that would help them adjust to change, the winners-the Chameleons-have acquired a character structure symmetrical with the needs of the new society.

This new elite, however, is not immune to anxiety and fear because of the contradictions and impossible demands that characterize what Rosen calls the Chameleon Complex and because different factions of the elite constantly fight to control culture and shape the nation's identity. Rosen puts contemporary social change in an historical context, showing that today's turmoil resembles the disturbances that have taken place whenever society has undergone rapid and fundamental social change.

About Bernard Rosen

BERNARD CARL ROSEN is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He has been the director of research projects on the causes and effects of social change in five countries and three continents. He is the author of four books, including The Industrial Connection (1982) and Women, Work and Achievement (1989), and of numerous journal articles.

Table of Contents

The American Dream Revisited The Loser's Lament Round Up the Usual Suspects The First Great Transformation We've Been There Before Progress and Darwinian Man The Second Great Transformation The New Elite The Chameleon Personality of Our Time The Roots of the Chameleon Complex The Ideology of the New Elite Winners and Losers Women as Winners Blue-Collar Blues The Business Class under Attack The Contradictions of Elite Ideology Affirmative Inequality The New Conformity Conclusion Letting the Light In Bibliography Index

Additional information

NPB9780275962777
9780275962777
0275962776
Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution: Psychosocial Change and Its Discontents by Bernard Rosen
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1998-11-24
336
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