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Post-industrial society. Clark's sector model for US economy 1850–2009. [ 1] The graph illustrates the predominance of primary, secondary and tertiary industries (as a share of all jobs) over time, as a society develops. In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more ...
Of particular note is the fact that Rostow's "Age of High Mass Consumption" dovetails with (occurring before) Daniel Bell's hypothesized "Post-Industrial Society." The Bell and Rostovian models collectively suggest that economic maturation inevitably brings on job-growth which can be followed by wage escalation in the secondary economic sector ...
Post-Fordism. Post-Fordism is a term used to describe the growth of new production methods defined by flexible production, the individualization of labor relations and fragmentation of markets into distinct segments, after the demise of Fordist production. It was widely advocated by French Marxist economists and American labor economists in the ...
A post-industrial economy is a period of growth within an industrialized economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing reduces and that of services, information, and research grows. [ 1]
Industrial society. In sociology, an industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology and machinery to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the Western world in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution, and replaced the ...
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. This involves an extensive reorganisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. [3] Industrialisation is associated with increase of polluting industries ...
The knowledge economy, or knowledge-based economy, is an economic system in which the production of goods and services is based principally on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to advancement in technical and scientific innovation. [ 1] The key element of value is the greater dependence on human capital and intellectual property as ...
Television and film. The 24th-century human society depicted in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager is a post-scarcity society brought about by the invention of the "replicator", a machine that converts energy to matter instantaneously. [ 45]