Post- Industrial

Societies
Key Objectives:

￮ To understand thoroughly about Post-

Industrial Society
￮ To determine its characteristics
￮ To determine its cultural
developments
1 Post-
Industrial
Society
Group -5
 What is Post- Industrial
Society?
With the development of information
technology and computers, many societies
transformed into post-industrial societies. The
United States, like many other developed
countries, have reached the post-Industrial era
and undergone a post-industrial revolution.
The Post-industrial Revolution is an
important development from the Industrial
Revolution as economic production focused
on the use and application of new information
technology rather than factories (Macionis,
2002, p. 46). In the post-industrial era,
Macionis (2002) writes that production
"centers on computers and other electronic
devices that create, process, and apply ideas
and information”.
 Post-industrial societies are
characterized by the following:
1. Transfer of labor workforce from manufacturing to service
2. A significant increase in the number of professional and
technical employment and a decline in the number of skilled and
semiskilled workers.
3. Education as the basis of social mobility
4. Human capital as an essential aspect of understanding the
strength of society
5. Application of "intellectual technology" which is
based on the application of mathematics and
linguistics and the use of algorithms and software
programming models
6. Focus on communication infrastructure
7. Knowledge as source of invention and innovation
 Cultural Developments of Post-
Industrial Society
• the food
• the arts
• the buildings
• the communication
• the technology
Summarize: