Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures
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Wendell Bell is professor emeritus of sociology at Yale University, where he also served as chair of the department and was director of the Comparative Sociology Training Program. He continues at Yale as a senior research scientist in the Center for Comparative Research, and also works as a consulting futurist-sociologist. Bell has written more than 200 articles and authored or co-authored nine books, including Social Area Analysis, Public Leadership, and Ethnicity and Nation-Building.
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