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... The industrial society tends to be an open society, inconsistent with the assignment of managers or workers to occupations or to jobs by traditional caste, racial groups, by sex or by family status. ...
For Marx, industrial society and capitalist society can more or less be considered the same. ... Marx emphasized that the capitalist society and the industrial society were synonymous.
In industrial societies the chief economic problem seem to be the problem of capital, how to industrialize a process of creating sufficient savings and the conversation for these moneys into investment areas through investment banks, self-financing and taxation. The main focus of social relations has been the enterprise or firm and the major social problem of industrial conflict between employer and employee. ... Industrial society represented a special stage in the history of man and looked at the ways in which sociologists has conceptualized it.
On the other hand for theorists such as Dahrendorf, he noted that the concept of industrial society refers to those features of society that cannot be divorced from its industrial character. He also argues that any type of factory based industrial production requires some type of authority structure. ... The industrial society theorists recognize this feature from a purely technical viewpoint to show that these determine the nature of the wider society that supports it. ...
Dahrendorf felt that one feature of industrial society was the need for an authority system as long as there is a system of industrial production. He argues that industrial conflict is not peculiar to capitalist society but perhaps a feature of an industrial society. ...
Industrial society has been criticized on the grounds that it represents an evolutionist and functionalist interpretation of societal processes, with all of the shortcomings that attend these approaches to the study of society. It is felt that the industrial society is influenced by modernization theory with its idea of predetermined social evolution from so called traditional to modern society.
It must be noted that for analytical purposes, one can divide societies into pre-industrial, industrial and post industrial but can be seen in contrast along many different dimensions. ... The ideal constructs looks essential differences, therefore the design of the pre industrial society is a game against nature where its resources are drawn from extractive industries and it is subject to the law of diminishing returns and low productivity, the design for the Indus society goes on the premise of a game against fabricated nature, this is centered on machine relationships and uses energy to transform the natural environment into a technical environment, on the other hand the design of the post industrial society is a game between persons in which and intellectual technology based on information rises along side machine technology.
Approximate Word count = 1940
Approximate Pages = 7.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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