ABSTRACT
A social trend is basically a projection from the past. Many of the early postindustrial theorists, such as Daniel Bell (1976), predicted a future in which most of what they deemed positive in the era of the ‘democratic class struggle’ would come to full fruition. Bell’s vision was a coming society of professionals and technicians, one where ‘situs’ rather than class conflict would reign. This was a radical reinterpretation in so far as postindustrial society would do away with class altogether. Also Lipset has now embraced this position (Clark and Lipset, 1991; Clark, Lipset, and Rempel, 1993).
