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Chapter 5 Section 4

Chapter 5 Section 4. Industrial and Postindustrial Societies. Basic Features of Industrial Societies. Industrial society: A society that depends on science and technology to produce its basic goods and services.

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Chapter 5 Section 4

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  1. Chapter 5 Section 4 Industrial and Postindustrial Societies

  2. Basic Features of Industrial Societies • Industrial society: A society that depends on science and technology to produce its basic goods and services. • Away from simple, traditional technology, towards scientific knowledge and complex technical devices.

  3. Features Continued… • Mechanization: the process of replacing animal and human power with machine power. • Urbanization: The shifting of population from farms and villages to large cities. • How does the role of family change? • Less home education. • Less reliance on family. • Women have more power.(jobs and freedom)

  4. Ferdinand Tonnies Gemeinschaft: preindustrial society based on tradition, kinship, and close social ties. Gesellschaft: Industrial society characterized by weak family ties, competition and impersonal social relationships. Emile Durkheim Social Solidarity: The degree to which a society is unified. Mechanical Solidarity: Social unity when people do the same work and have the same values. Organic Solidarity: Social unity in which members’ interdependence is through complex specialized functions and statuses. Sociologists take on Preindustrial and Industrial Societies

  5. Major Features of Postindustrial Societies • Labor force is employed in Service jobs rather than manufacturing or agriculture. • White-Collar replaces Blue-Collar work. • Technology is key organization feature. • Technological change is planned and assessed. • Reliance on computer modeling in all areas.

  6. Social instability in Postindustrial Society • Crime, social disorder rise, divorce, marriages and births decline, Inner city problems. • Will it continue? • According to Fukuyama it is lessening, believes that humans find it difficult to live without norms and values.

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