Daniel bell was born in new york to a Jewish immigrant family from Eastern Europe. When Daniel Bolowski was born, his father died soon after. Forced by life, Bell was placed in a Jewish orphanage. The life experience in the orphanage and the hardships of riff-raff promoted his mental precocity. Bell showed great enthusiasm for Marxism and socialism since he was a child. /kloc-When he was 0/3 years old, he changed his surname to Bell. 1935 to 1939, studying at City University of new york and Graduate School of Columbia University. After graduation, Bell took an active part in society: he was the editor-in-chief of a magazine, the chairman of sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia University and Harvard University, and worked in many public institutions. Bell was mainly engaged in journalism in the forties and fifties. He used to be editor-in-chief of New Leader magazine, editorial board member and writer of Happiness magazine. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was mainly engaged in teaching. He was a sociology professor at Columbia University and Harvard University, and also engaged in some activities related to future research and prediction. He was the chairman of the "2000 Committee" of the American College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the "Agenda Committee of the 1980s" of the President of the United States. Bell is in a leading position in the study of post-war western sociology, futurology and developed capitalism. 1974 During the American intellectual elite census, he was one of the most influential famous scholars of 10, and his most famous work was The End of Ideology, which was rated as the most famous work after World War II by The Times 1995. He was a left-wing intellectual in his early days, then turned to conservatism, and his later views were even more vague.
As an "intervention" scholar, Bell paid close attention to and deeply and extensively analyzed the phenomena and problems in the political, economic and cultural fields of contemporary society, and wrote a series of influential works. His name is always closely related to "the end of ideology", "post-industrial society" and "capitalist cultural contradiction".