The Great Disruption

17 Jun, 1999 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the shift that has gone on through the 20th century from our being an industrial society to what is often called ‘the information society’. Francis Fukuyama’s book, The Great Disruption talks of the third great shift in the whole history of humankind. Along with all the technological and economic changes, in the past thirty years we have seen massive social changes. What has been the cause of this shift and how will we recover the social cohesion that preceded it? With Francis Fukuyama, Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Washington DC and author of The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order; Amos Oz, author and Professor of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva.

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Guests

  • Francis Fukuyama No other episodes
    Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Washington DC
  • Amos Oz No other episodes
    Professor of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva

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