Foundations Of Futures Studies Volume 1

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412823791

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Foundations of Futures Studies, Volume 1 by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.

Author : Jose Valciukas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351519427

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Foundations of Futures Studies by Jose Valciukas Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. This book summarizes and expands contributions of futurists to the envisioning power and well-being of humanity. Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field.Foundations of Futures Studies fulfills Bell's five main purposes for writing this two-volume effort: (1) to show that futures studies, like other fields from anthropology to zoology, exists as an identifiable sphere of intellectual activity; (2) to create a teaching instrument that can be used as a basic text for core courses in futures studies; (3) to futurize the thinking of specialists in other disciplines; (4) to contribute to the further development and improvement of futures studies; and (5) to provide tools to empower both ordinary people and leaders to act in ways that create better futures for themselves and their societies. Bell maintains that despite its sometimes doomsday rhetorical style and widespread use by special interests, futures studies offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of our everyday lives. It will appeal to all interested in futures studies, as well as sociologists, economists, political scientists, and historians.

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0765805391

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Foundations of Futures Studies: History, purposes, and knowledge by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future, make possibilities for the future more known to us, and increase human control over the future. Author Wendell Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools, describing and explaining not only the methods, but also the nature, concepts, theories, and exemplars of the field. Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Foundations of Future Studies is the fundamental work on the subject. Bell illustrates how this sphere of intellectual activity offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of everyday life. His book will appeal to all interested in futures studies, sociology, economics, political science, and history.

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351519397

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Foundations of Futures Studies by Wendell Bell Pdf

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. Wendell Bell's two-volume work Foundations of Futures Studies is widely acknowledged as the fundamental work on the subject. In Volume 2, Bell goes beyond possible and probable futures to the study of preferable futures. He shows that concern with ethics, morality, and human values follows directly from the futurist purposes of discovering or inventing, examining, and proposing desirable futures. He examines moral judgments as an inescapable aspect of all decision-making and conscious action, even in the everyday lives of ordinary people.Now available in paperback with a new preface from the author, Volume 2 of Foundations of Futures Studies moves beyond cultural relativism to critical evaluation. Bell compares depictions of the good society by utopian writers, describes objective methods of moral judgment, assesses religion and law as sources of what is morally right, documents the existence of universal human values, and shows that if human beings are to thrive in the global society of the future, some human values must be changed.

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1560002719

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Foundations of Futures Studies by Wendell Bell Pdf

Author : Eleonora Masini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : UOM:39015029571422

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Why Futures Studies? by Eleonora Masini Pdf

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : OCLC:906714080

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Foundations of Futures Studies by Wendell Bell Pdf

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forecasting
ISBN : 1560002719

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Foundations of Futures Studies: Values, objectivity, and the good society by Wendell Bell Pdf

Author : Riel Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351047982

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Transforming the Future (Open Access) by Riel Miller Pdf

People are using the future to search for better ways to achieve sustainability, inclusiveness, prosperity, well-being and peace. In addition, the way the future is understood and used is changing in almost all domains, from social science to daily life. This book presents the results of significant research undertaken by UNESCO with a number of partners to detect and define the theory and practice of anticipation around the world today. It uses the concept of ‘Futures Literacy’ as a tool to define the understanding of anticipatory systems and processes – also known as the Discipline of Anticipation. This innovative title explores: • new topics such as Futures Literacy and the Discipline of Anticipation; • the evidence collected from over 30 Futures Literacy Laboratories and presented in 14 full case studies; • the need and opportunity for significant innovation in human decision-making systems. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, policy-makers and students, as well as activists working on sustainability issues and innovation, future studies and anticipation studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351047999, has been made available under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license.

Author : Rick Szostak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000465648

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Making Sense of the Future by Rick Szostak Pdf

Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism. The book takes a systems approach that recognizes the complexity of our world. It begins by suggesting a set of goals for human societies and identifying innovative strategies for achieving these goals that could gain broad support. Each chapter begins with a “How to” section that discusses how we can identify goals, strategies, trends, surprises, or implementation strategies and concludes with an integrative analysis that draws connections across the preceding discussions. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Szostak explores key trends and how these interact so that he can develop strategies to guide trends towards desirable futures. He discusses the ways in which we can best prepare for surprises such as epidemics and natural disasters, enabling us to react to them in beneficial ways. Supported by a list of guiding questions and suggestions for class projects, this is an accessible textbook for students of Future Studies and Future Studies courses. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial- No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Heike Paul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030289874

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Critical Terms in Futures Studies by Heike Paul Pdf

This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. Not situated in the field of “futurology” proper, it comes at future studies ‘sideways’ and offers a multidisciplinary treatment of a critical futures’ vocabulary. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range of subjects – history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese studies, Chinese studies, and philosophy – and critically illuminate numerous discourses about the future (or futures), past and present. In compiling such a critical vocabulary, this book seeks to foster conversations about futures in study programs and research forums and offers a toolbox for discussing them with an adequate degree of complexity.

Author : Wendell Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:895340306

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Foundations of Futures Studies by Wendell Bell Pdf

Author : Wendell Bell,James Wau
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1971-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610440394

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Sociology of the Future by Wendell Bell,James Wau Pdf

Concerns itself with the future of sociology, and of all social science. The thirteen authors—among them Wendell Bell, Kai T. Erikson, Scott Greer, Robert Boguslaw, James Mau, and Ivar Oxaal—are oriented toward a redefinition of the role of the social scientist as advisor to policymakers and administrators in all major areas of social concern, for the purpose of studying and shaping the future. This book contains research strategies for such "futurologistic" study, theories on its merits and dangers, as well as an annotated bibliography of social science studies of the future.

Author : Luke Doggett,Alp Arat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351607384

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Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion by Luke Doggett,Alp Arat Pdf

Since the sociology of religion became recognised as a distinct sub-discipline over the last century, the dominance of approaches taking their inspiration from the sociological classics has increasingly been challenged. Empirical findings have brought the notion of secularisation into question; and theorists have sought to deconstruct how we think of ‘religion.’ This collection appraises the continuing influence of the foundational approaches and places these in relation to newly emerging directions in the field. The book is divided into four sections, each section containing one ‘foundational’ chapter written by an established academic followed by two ‘futures’ chapters contributed by emerging scholars in the sub-discipline. These chapters complement one another by placing the overview of future directions in the context of a survey of the development of the sociology of religion over the last century. Topics discussed in these chapters include lived religion, sexuality, ritual, religion and the media. Combining erudite examinations of the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group’s work so far with explorations of the future directions its research might take, this book is vital reading for any scholar whose work combines religious studies and sociology.

Author : Edward Cornish
Publisher : World Future Society
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0930242572

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Futuring by Edward Cornish Pdf