Daniel Bell: Culture

Daniel Bell was American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Explore interesting quotes on culture.
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“Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 95

“The relationship between a civilization's socio-economic structure and its culture is perhaps the most complicated of all problems for the sociologist.”

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 1, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, p. 33