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
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A factory, a traditional symbol of the industrial development (a cement factory in Kunda, Estonia)
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Colin Clark's sector model of an economy undergoing technological change. In later stages, the Quaternary sector of the economy grows.
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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,
