Post-Industrial Society

 

Post-Industrial Society

The term was coined by  Alain Touraine, is a French sociologist.

 He published the first major work on the post-industrial society in 1969. Daniel Bell popularized the term through his 1974 work The Coming of Post-Industrial Society.

Daniel Bell

 The term was also used extensively by social philosopher Ivan Illich in his 1973 paper Tools for Conviviality. The term has grown and changed as it became mainstream. Describing the transition from a society predominantly based on the production of physical goods to a service-based one. Economically, it is associated with the rise of the service sector, or the so-called tertiary sector, to the point, that it either produces more wealth than the manufacturing or so-called secondary sector

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.

 

The increasing importance of knowledge in post-industrial societies results in a general increase in expertise through the economy and throughout society.

Over the course of the last 30 years of the 20th century, he writes in 1999 foreword to the new edition of his Post-Industrial Society, the following major changes have occurred

1. From manufacturing to services:

2. Occupational changes: The most striking change is the rise of professional and technical employment and the relative decline of skilled and semi-skilled workers.

3. Property and education: The traditional mode of gaining place and privilege in the society was through inheritance—of a family farm, a family business, or a family occupation. Today education has become the basis of social mobility.

4. Financial capital and human capital Nowadays more importance is given to human capital than economic capital.

5. Technology and intellectual technology are given more importance

6. Infrastructure: The infrastructure of industrial society was transportation. The  infrastructure of the post-industrial society is communication.

Characteristics of Post-Industrial Societies

• Production of goods declines and the production of services went up.
• Manual labor jobs and blue collar jobs are replaced with technical and professional jobs.
• New technologies were introduced  like       IT and cybersecurity.