Foundations of Futures Studies, Volume 1: Human Science for a New EraTransaction Publishers - 408 من الصفحات 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. |
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... values , and the policy sciences , " Futures 25 , No. 7 ( September 1993 ) : 806-813 . The American Sociological Association for : " What do we mean by ' paradigm ' ? " ASA Footnotes 18 , No. 9 ( No- vember 1990 ) : 17 . Also , I have ...
... Values , Objectivity , and the Good Society , " I join the efforts of other futurists to raise people's consciousness about the range of alternative possibilities for the future , to illustrate the importance of futures thinking for ...
... values on which such an ethical system might be based ; proposals for new institutions to govern transnational activities and inter- national peace soldiers to discourage local conflict , destruction , and vio- lence ; ways to equitably ...
... values that guided human beings in the past . Today , many people are aware that the life - support system of our planet may be endangered by human actions and they are conscious of their mutual dependence on other human beings , of the ...
... values and norms of con- duct that will lead to the flourishing of human society . I discuss human values , how to put them to use in judging the desirability of alternative futures , how to evaluate objectively the values themselves ...
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The Purposes of Futures Studies | 73 |
Assumptions of Futures Studies | 115 |
Is Futures Studies an Art or a Science? | 165 |
Methods and Exemplars in Futures Research | 239 |