Industrial society

In an industrial society, people use technology to produce a lot of things (mass production). This leads to a large population with an organized division of labour. This happened to the Western world during the Industrial Revolution. This replaced farming or agrarian societies of the pre-modern age.^[1]

The US and many European nations are examples of industrial societies. China and India are also somewhat industrial but large parts of their populations still farm.^[source?]

Industrial Society Media

Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop in the 20th century
A factory, a traditional symbol of the industrial development (a cement factory in Kunda, Estonia)
Colin Clark's sector model of an economy undergoing technological change. In later stages, the Quaternary sector of the economy grows.
An industrial worker amidst heavy steel components (KINEX BEARINGS, Bytča, Slovakia, c. 1995–2000)
The assembly plant of the Bell Aircraft Corporation (Wheatfield, New York, United States, 1944) producing P-39 Airacobra fighters

References

↑ S. Langlois, Traditions: Social, In: Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Editor(s)-in-Chief, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, pages 15829-15833,

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[slang-1] S. Langlois, Traditions: Social, In: Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, Editor(s)-in-Chief, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon, Oxford, 2001, pages 15829-15833,

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