Industrial society, the Glossary

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1. 108 relations: Abolitionism, Agrarian society, Alain Touraine, American Civil War, André Gorz, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Anti-communism, Arable land, Arms industry, Artisan, Automation, Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Car, Carriage, Cold War, Colin Clark (economist), Collective bargaining, Colonialism, Combine harvester, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Crimean War, Daniel Bell, Decolonization, Developed country, Development economics, Diminishing returns, Division of labour, Dystopia, Early modern period, Economics, Factory, Fertilizer, Feudalism, Food industry, Fossil fuel, Frankfurt School, Funding, Georges Friedmann, Global North and Global South, Guild, Han dynasty, Herbert Marcuse, History of slavery, Industrial relations, Industrial Revolution, Industrial Society and Its Future, Industrial warfare, Industrialisation, Information Age, ... Expand index (58 more) »

2. Industrialisation
3. Secondary sector of the economy
4. Society
5. Stages of history

Abolitionism

Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.

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Agrarian society

An agrarian society, or agricultural society, is any community whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.

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Alain Touraine

Alain Touraine (3 August 1925 – 9 June 2023) was a French sociologist.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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André Gorz

Gérard Horst (9 February 1923 – 22 September 2007), more commonly known by his pen names André Gorz and Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher and journalist and critic of work.

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Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The Annual Review of Environment and Resources is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes review articles about environmental science and environmental engineering.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Arms industry

The arms industry, also known as the defence (or defense) industry, military industry, or the arms trade, is a global industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology.

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Artisan

An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.

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Automation

Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Carriage

A carriage is a two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for passengers.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Colin Clark (economist)

Colin Grant Clark (2 November 1905 – 4 September 1989) was a British and Australian economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Combine harvester

The modern combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine designed to harvest a variety of cultivated seeds.

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Congress for Cultural Freedom

The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an anti-communist cultural organization founded on June 26, 1950 in West Berlin.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell (May 10, 1919 – January 25, 2011) was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor at Harvard University, best known for his contributions to the study of post-industrialism.

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Decolonization

independence. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas.

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Developed country

A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.

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Development economics

Development economics is a branch of economics that deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries.

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Diminishing returns

In economics, diminishing returns are the decrease in marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased, holding all other factors of production equal (ceteris paribus).

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Division of labour

The division of labour is the separation of the tasks in any economic system or organisation so that participants may specialise (specialisation).

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Dystopia

A dystopia, also called a cacotopia or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Factory

A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another.

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients.

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Feudalism

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

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Food industry

The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population.

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Fossil fuel

A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.

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Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy. Industrial society and Frankfurt School are Sociological theories.

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Funding

Funding is the act of providing resources to finance a need, program, or project.

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Georges Friedmann

Georges Philippe Friedmann (13 May 1902 – 15 November 1977), was a French sociologist and philosopher, known for his influential work on the effects of industrial labor on individuals and his criticisms of the uncontrolled embrace of technological change in twentieth-century Europe and the United States.

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Global North and Global South

Global North and Global South are terms that denote a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics and politics.

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Guild

A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.

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Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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Industrial relations

Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor/trade unions, employer organizations, and the state.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution. Industrial society and Industrial Revolution are Industrialisation and stages of history.

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Industrial Society and Its Future

Industrial Society and Its Future, also known as the Unabomber Manifesto, is a 1995 anti-technology essay by Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber".

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Industrial warfare

Industrial warfare is a period in the history of warfare ranging roughly from the early 19th century and the start of the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the Atomic Age, which saw the rise of nation-states, capable of creating and equipping large armies, navies, and air forces, through the process of industrialization.

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Industrialisation

Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. Industrial society and Industrialisation are Secondary sector of the economy.

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Information Age

The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.

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Information society

An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity. Industrial society and information society are stages of history.

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Jean Fourastié

Jean Fourastié (15 April 1907 in Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nièvre25 July 1990 in Douelle, Lot) was a French civil servant, economist, professor and public intellectual.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual.

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Labour law

Labour laws (also spelled as labor laws), labour code or employment laws are those that mediate the relationship between workers, employing entities, trade unions, and the government.

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Labour movement

The labour movement is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests.

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Lean manufacturing

Lean manufacturing is a method of manufacturing goods aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and customers.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

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Machine

A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. Industrial society and Marxism are Sociological theories.

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Mass production

Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.

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Mass society

Mass society is a concept that describes modern society as a monolithic force and yet a disaggregate collection of individuals.

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Mechanization

Mechanization (or mechanisation) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery. Industrial society and Mechanization are Secondary sector of the economy.

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Mercantilism

Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.

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Military–industrial complex

The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.

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Mobilization

Mobilization (alternatively spelled as mobilisation) is the act of assembling and readying military troops and supplies for war.

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Modern warfare

Modern warfare is warfare that diverges notably from previous military concepts, methods, and technology, emphasizing how combatants must modernize to preserve their battle worthiness.

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Modernization theory

Modernization theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic. Industrial society and Modernization theory are Sociological theories.

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Newly industrialized country

The category of newly industrialized country (NIC), newly industrialized economy (NIE) or middle income country is a socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world by political scientists and economists. Industrial society and newly industrialized country are Industrialisation.

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Offshoring

Offshoring is the relocation of a business process from one country to another—typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Population growth

Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group.

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Post-industrial society

In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy. Industrial society and post-industrial society are stages of history.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.

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Pre-industrial society

Pre-industrial society refers to social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which occurred from 1750 to 1850.

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Quality (business)

In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality – or high quality – has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something (goods or services); it is also defined as being suitable for the intended purpose (fitness for purpose) while satisfying customer expectations.

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Quaternary sector of the economy

The quaternary sector of the economy is based upon the economic activity that is associated with either the intellectual or knowledge-based economy.

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Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician.

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Raymond Aron

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.

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Reformism

Reformism is a trend advocating the reform of an existing system or institution – often a political or religious establishment – as opposed to its abolition and replacement via revolution.

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Reinhard Bendix

Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916 – February 28, 1991) was a German-American sociologist.

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Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates for, a revolution.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Serfdom

Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems.

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Service industries

Service industries are those not directly concerned with the production of physical goods (such as agriculture and manufacturing).

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Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist.

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Sheilagh Ogilvie

Sheilagh Catheren Ogilvie, FBA (born 7 October 1958) is a Canadian historian, economist, and academic, specialising in economic history.

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Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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State ownership

State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.

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Suburb

A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.

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Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.

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Tertiary sector of the economy

The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).

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Total war

Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all (including civilian-associated) resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilises all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs.

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Traditional society

In sociology, traditional society refers to a society characterized by an orientation to the past, not the future, with a predominant role for custom and habit. Industrial society and traditional society are Sociological theories and stages of history.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.

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Urbanization

Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.

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Vocational education

Vocational education is education that prepares people for a skilled craft as an artisan, trade as a tradesperson, or work as a technician.

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Walt Rostow

Walt Whitman Rostow (October 7, 1916 – February 13, 2003) was an American economist, professor and political theorist who served as national security advisor to president of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1969.

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Weapon of mass destruction

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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Workshop

Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.

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World war

A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers.

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See also

Industrialisation

• Central Industrial Region (Poland)
• Deindustrialization
• History of industrialisation
• Industrial Revolution
• Industrial society
• Industrialisation
• Industrialization in Germany
• Industrialization in the Russian Empire
• Industrialization of China
• Industrialization of Sweden
• Industrialization of construction
• Infant industry
• Late industrialisation
• Meisen (textile)
• Newly industrialized country
• Newly industrializing countries
• Proto-industrialization
• Reindustrialization
• Sustainable Development Goal 9
• Urbanization in the German Empire

Secondary sector of the economy

• Boilery
• Cartoning machine
• Chemical process
• Cleaner
• Collapsology
• EMO (trade show)
• Eco-industrial development
• Fabric structure
• French Fab
• Group technology
• Industrial archaeology
• Industrial augmented reality
• Industrial cities
• Industrial city
• Industrial composting
• Industrial design
• Industrial district
• Industrial engineering
• Industrial equipment
• Industrial history
• Industrial organization
• Industrial policy
• Industrial processes
• Industrial production
• Industrial sickness
• Industrial slave
• Industrial society
• Industrial tourism
• Industrialisation
• Industrialists
• Kaldor's growth laws
• Low carbon leakage
• Machine industry
• Machine shop
• Manufacturing
• Mechanization
• Modelling of particle breakage
• Outline of industry
• Pareto priority index
• Reindustrialization
• Secondary sector of the economy
• Sociology of work
• Transmittal document
• Wedge-based mechanical exfoliation

Society

• Affluent society
• Civil society
• Collaborative society
• Communication
• Communist society
• Confessional society
• Demographics
• Economy
• Ethnicity
• Family
• Footprint
• Friends of society
• Human rights
• Humanities
• Industrial society
• Modern capitalist society
• Movements
• Organization
• Origins of society
• Parallel society
• Planetary consciousness
• Policy
• Politics
• Public sphere
• Race and society
• Rural society
• Security
• Social conflict
• Social crises
• Social events
• Social groups
• Social history
• Social impact
• Social institutions
• Social issues
• Social sciences
• Social systems
• Societal collapse
• Societal marketing
• Society
• Stateless society
• Teen escort company
• Trade
• Treaty body

Stages of history

• Industrial Revolution
• Industrial civilization
• Industrial society
• Industrious Revolution
• Information society
• Knowledge society
• Neolithic Revolution
• Planetary phase of civilization
• Post-industrial society
• Technological revolution
• Traditional society
• Urban revolution

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_society

Also known as Industrial Labor, Industrial labour, Industrial resources, Industrial societies, Industrial system, Industrial workforce, Industrial world, Industrialized economy.

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