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Post-industrial society
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'' "Post-industrial" redirects here. For the grouping of music genres, see post-industrial (music).''
A '''post-industrial society''' is a proposed name for an
Economics economy that has undergone a specific series of changes in structure after a process of
industrialization.
Such societies are often marked by:
* A rapid increase in the size of the
service sector, as opposed to
manufacturing,
* An increase in the amount of
information technology, often leading to an "
information age". Information, knowledge and creativity are the new
raw materials of such an economy. The concept of the
informational revolution is relevant.
''Post-industrial society'' has often been a term of criticism, with many seeking to restore industrial development. Increasingly, however, citizens are seeing abandoned old factories as sites for new housing, shopping, recreational, and commercial development opportunities.
This however does not imply that there has been a decrease in manufactured goods, as many factories now use machines instead of a human workforce.
The concept of the post-industrial society is linked with the work of
Daniel Bell. Here are some of his observations from the
1970s:
*A post-industrial society is one in which the majority of those employed are not involved in the production of tangible goods [http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/PRELIMS/Political/pomisc1.html].
*What is characteristic of post-industrial society is not just the shift from property or political criteria to knowledge as the base of power, but the character of knowledge itself [http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/NEWPRE/POLSOC98/Bell.html].
However, Bell used
Colin Clark's three-sector model, which did not distinguish between, say, retailing, personal care services and
telecoms or
information technology.
See also
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Alvin Toffler
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Late modernity
*
Industrial society
*
Sociocultural evolution
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Technological singularity
Category:Postmodernism
Category:Social philosophy
fr:économie post-industrielle
ru:ПоÑ?тиндуÑ?триальное общеÑ?тво
zh:後工業社會
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