Contributors
Contents
Foreword // Wilbert E. Moore
Preface
Part I. Images of the Future
Images of the Future: Theory and Research Strategies // Wendell Bell and James A. Mau
A Paradigm for the Analysis of Time Perspectives and Images of the Future // Wendell Bell, James A. Mau, Bettina J. Huber, and Menno Boldt
Part II. Constructing the Past and Making the Future
Sociology and the Historical Perspective // Kai T. Erikson
Utopia Construction and Future Forecasting: Problems, Limitations, and Relevance // Henry Winthrop
Part III. Some Images of the Future in Sociology and Psychoanalysis
The Myth of Value-Free Psychotherapy // Pauline B. Bart
Images of Future Leisure: Continuities in Changing Expectations // William R. Burch, Jr.
Images of Canada's Future in John Porter's The Vertical Mosaic // Menno Boldt
In the Mirrors of Sociology: Images of American and Soviet Society // Paul Hollander
Part IV. Research and Policy: Images of the Future in Action
The Design Perspective in Sociology // Robert Boguslaw
Policy and the Urban Future // Scott Greer
Images of the Future and Organizational Change: The Case of New York University // J. Victor Baldridge
Methodology and the Quest for Utopia: A Case Study from El Dorado // Ivar Oxaal
Epilogue // Wendell Bell
Appendix
Studies of the Future: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography // Bettina J. Huber