Industrial society
society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour
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?]
References
change- ↑ 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,
