The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of a New Class

Author: Irving Goffman, written by Guo Xiaohui and Cai Rong translated
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Irving Goffman points out that in the post-industrial society where the old labor-capital relationship no longer plays a dominant role, its main characteristic is that cultural capital has replaced the old material capital. At this time, the new class composed of humanistic intellectuals and technical intellectuals becomes the spokesperson of history and launches a struggle against the bourgeoisie, which originally controlled the socio-economic field, to seize power and implement a governance based on knowledge, rationality, and professional technology. This new class is a "flawed ordinary class" in the ascending stage, currently still in the service class, and its ruling status may only be established several centuries later. Irving Goffman points out that in the post-industrial society where the old labor-capital relationship no longer plays a dominant role, its main characteristic is that cultural capital has replaced the old material capital. At this time, the new class composed of humanistic intellectuals and technical intellectuals becomes the spokesperson of history and launches a struggle against the bourgeoisie, which originally controlled the socio-economic field, to seize power and implement a governance based on knowledge, rationality, and professional technology. This new class is a "flawed ordinary class" in the ascending stage, currently still in the service class, and its ruling status may only be established several centuries later.