industrial society - it features a contour line designated in the first half of the XIX century.It is a society in which industrial production has played a key role in the economy.Compared to traditional, where the main violin orchestra plays in the economic agriculture, industrial society distinctive technological way, a new philosophy of law and social structure.From a sociological and political science point of view it would be correct to speak about the formation in it modernistic bourgeois States and European democracies of classical type.
Three questions for an old industry
characteristic of industrial society is a new type of organization of the social system in which the status of professional activities receive the policy, governance and entrepreneurship.Moreover, all three components are woven into a tangle of snaps in solving three principal tasks: how to effectively manage natural and human resources;where to find the resources for extensive development;whether the modernization of technological resources to modernize social relations in society?Thus, the industrial society of the feudal clan system turns into a bureaucratic system where the question of management becomes more important than the problem of preserving and further enhancement of the property.
traits inherent in industrial society
- production system as a basic element of the economy.Elements of production is also evident in the humanitarian fields - culture, science, art, education.Agriculture gets the status of the secondary industry, transforming into a technologically advanced and high technology industries.
- social restructuring of society.The share of agriculture is reduced to 10-15% of GDP.The share of industry increased to 50-60%, wage-labor becomes the main form of employment.There is a new industrial society.Features of the new social: professional specialization, the growth of urban population, territorial stratification (poor neighborhoods, the space of the middle class, the rich and aristocratic areas), relocation of villagers in the town.
- Legal restructuring of society.Industrial society - new features: creation of the constitutional system, universal suffrage, the transition to parliamentarism (in most countries), the formation of the modern party system, reflecting the ideology of opposing the social, the incorporation of personal and group interests to the massive ideological movement.
- cultural and educational revolution.Culture becomes a mass and the city, in this sense - the bourgeois, not folk village.Center for Social Development and Communications - the city makes its own rules in rural areas.Universal secondary education and increase the capitalization of labor, including by the scientific and technical expertise.
Conclusions
As a result, industrial society, whose features finally appeared in the 30s of the last century, it was at a crossroads.On the one hand, public relations capitalization allows you to include additional resources for the mobilization of labor.For the dominant political group is meant to strengthen their political status "provider" of industrial development.On the other hand, despite the apparent liberalization of the political system, the majority of citizens has been artificially removed from production policy - a professional, but the elite class.The solution was hidden in the introduction of the principle of equality before the law.But it was made after the Second World War.
