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	Thompson/Hickey Society in Focus 3e Chapter 5 -- Chapter Outline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Society is defined as people who live in a specific geographic territory, interact with one another, and share many elements of a common culture.
		A pastoral society is a society that depends for its livelihood on domestic animals, and many still exist in the desert and Arabic areas of the world.
		Postindustrial society is a society where service industries and the manufacture of information and knowledge dominate the economy.
	cwabacon.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/thompson/chapter5/custom2/deluxe-content.html (2124 words)

	Hyperindustrialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One of the main reasons given in support of the idea that we are now a postindustrial society has been the recent changes in the occupational structure of modern societies.
		Since industrial society is closely identified with manufacturing in the popular imagination, what occurs after 1950 must be some new form of society, something after industrialism.
		The growth of services in industrial society is related to the decline of the extended family and community as a provider of such services as child care, counseling, and social security.
	www.faculty.rsu.edu /~felwell/Theorists/Four/Hyperindustrialism.htm (1411 words)

	Postmodern Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lyotard argues that as societies enter the postindustrial phase, the condition, character and status of knowledge is altered.
		For Lyotard, the computerisation of society [a key aspect of postindustrial society] shifts emphasis from the ends of actions to their means (108).
		The argument therefore is that postindustrial society alters the character of knowledge, substituting new criteria for validation.
	www.wits.ac.za /fac/arts/sociology/lyotnotes.htm (1401 words)

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		Hunting and gathering societies are societies in which all of the dietary intake of the members of the society is obtained by some combination of hunting, trapping, collecting shellfish, fishing and collecting edible plant materials.
		Horticultural societies are those societies in which the major portion of the dietary intake of the members is obtained from crops which are grown on land which is cleared by the slash and burn technique.
		Agrarian societies are societies which are based uponcrops which are produced in conjunction with the use of the plow technique.
	www.tomcravens.com /h-soc.htm (663 words)

	The WorldPaper: 2002 ISI: The informatization of global society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Societies do not suddenly transform themselves into information societies; rather, they are, in their various ways, informatized.
		Every society's ways of life have been rooted in a commonly shared body of symbolic material, which we call culture, and every culture has been shaped by the society's methods of communicating and storing information.
		What we are seeing now is a globalized transition in which electronic communication leaps ahead and in one way or another touches all societies and alters their patterns of cultural evolution, even though earlier media such as oral history, print and radio may continue to be an important part of their lives.
	www.worldpaper.com /archive/2002/february_13/february1.html (965 words)

	Futurist Party and Political Coalitions
		But the mounting of crisis of industrial society translated to the attempts of political representatives of old industries, to use government subsidies, to keep their moribund industries alive, rather than to reinforce new-sprung postindustrial centers.
		There were a few major setbacks particularly in the heart of industrial society in England, to realize that agricultural society was not going to lose its grip on the leadership of the country, and throw in the towel, and would try hard to use the resources of the state, to prolong its life, through subsidies.
		And the proponents of the new society had to fight a major political battles with the old, to be able to drive industrialization, and to make the industrial paradigm victorious, and the success was not given to them on a silver platter and required a real political struggle.
	www.ghandchi.com /309-FuturistCoalitionsEng.htm (2328 words)

	New Technologies and the Prospects for Democratization Democratization
		The postindustrial society is sometimes referred to as the "knowledge society," or "information society," in which knowledge and information are given roles more predominant than earlier days (see the survey in Webster 1995).
		In terms of political economy, the new postindustrial form of technocapitalism is characterized by a decline of the state and increased power of the market, accompanied by the growing power of globalized transnational corporations and governmental bodies and the decline of the nation-state and its institutions.
		The ideologues of the technological revolution and information society are forever arguing that education is the key to future prosperity, that education must be made available to all, and that it is thus the top social priority.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /courses/ed253a/newDK/techcity.htm (5392 words)

	Sociology 4th Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Postindustrial society--based on knowledge and information, and distinguished by an economy made up mostly of service occupations.
		Postmodern society is highly pluralistic and diverse, with no "grand narrative"--overall conceptions of history--guiding its development.
		Many are convinced that free trade will weaken the economic position of poor societies by allowing transnational corporations to operate with few or no safety and environmental regulations.
	www.wwnorton.com /giddens4/chapters/chapter20/welcome.htm (1034 words)

	Where Democrats Can Build a Majority... by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira (printable version)
		After World War II, industrial society was divided into three domains: the cities of offices and manufacturing plants, where white ethnics, minorities, and immigrants lived; suburbs, where many of the white middle class were moving; and rural areas of farms, mines, and forests.
		Postindustrial society is organized around metropolitan areas that include both suburbs and central cities.
		Some of the new postindustrial metropolitan areas like Silicon Valley or the Boulder, Colo., metro area contain significant manufacturing facilities, but it is manufacturing -- whether of pharmaceuticals or semiconductors -- that consists in the application of complex ideas to physical objects.
	www.ndol.org /print.cfm?contentid=250867 (3756 words)

	Restorative Justice - Kuzelewski, Dariusz. Victim-offender mediation: an institution of the postindustrial society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Victim-offender mediation: an institution of the postindustrial society Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology.
		According to Alvin Tofflerxe2x80x99s theory of three waves of civilization, there were three waves of transformations in the history of the world: rural revolution as the first one, industry revolution as the second one and the formation of postindustrial society based on servicing as the third one.
		The character of postindustrial society based on servicing can be expressed by new unknown phrases such as antimass-produce, adhoccracy and prosumption.
	www.restorativejustice.org /asp/details.asp?ID=3887 (441 words)

	Welcome to the CADIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The CADIS project was twofold: to study societal transformations through analyses of social movements that had the potential of leading to new forms of social relationships, and to map out the fundamental issues of a postindustrial society.
		While the social movements were "new," their analysis derived from a general theory of action which led us to define their modes of meaning using a general hypothesis of the structure of the social relationships and the cultural issues linked to those relationships.
		The idea is to show, beyond the diversity of ongoing struggles, the type and form of the new social movements, the actors and the issues which shape postindustrial society.
	www.ehess.fr /centres/cadis/english/pages/overview.html (431 words)

	Modernization and Values Futurist Magazine
		By traditional we mean those societies that are relatively authoritarian, place strong emphasis on religion, and exhibit a mainstream version of preindustrial values such as an emphasis on male dominance in economic and political life, respect for authority, and relatively low levels of tolerance for abortion and divorce.
		Different societies follow different trajectories even when they are subjected to the same forces of economic development, in part because situation-specific factors, such as a society's cultural heritage, also shape how a particular society develops.
		And virtually all of the historically Protestant societies (e.g., West Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) rank higher on the survival/self-expression dimension than do all of the historically Roman Catholic societies, regardless of the extent to which their labor forces are engaged in the service sector.
	www.orednet.org /~jflory/205/world_values_futurist.htm (2749 words)

	Chapter 5, Chapter Overview, Sociology and You, Glencoe, 2001
		Preindustrial Societies Societies are categorized as preindustrial, which can include hunting and gathering, horticultural, pastoral, or agricultural; industrial; or postindustrial.
		For example, hunting and gathering societies are small and nomadic; they are based on cooperation and sharing with little concept of ownership or status.
		In postindustrial societies the economic emphasis is on providing services and information.
	www.glencoe.com /sec/socialstudies/sociology/sy2003/content.php4/238/1 (235 words)

	Dr. Toulouse - Theory - Fall 2004
		The best concepts for analysing the problem of the individual in modern society are egoism - excessive market individualism - and anomie - the state of normlessness we encounter in unprecedented situations.
		The individual is a product of successful socialization into the collective conscience of society of his or her community.
		Society is like a vast living organism with its own consciousness.
	www.teachtools.com /toulouse/pages/theory/5marxdurkheimSV.shtml (268 words)

	The Johns Hopkins University: JHUpdate Feature
		In postindustrial society, what counts economically is neither land, as in the Agrarian Age, nor capital, as in the industrial world, but something more portable and personal: knowledge.
		Like the "knowledge worker" of postindustrial society — the designer, the economist, the psychologist — what the basketball player brings to his enterprise is his own skill.
		As for basketball, its connection to the main features of postindustrial life, as well as the simplicity of its rules and the soaring feats of its players, has given it the widest appeal of the three.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/jhupdate/sports.html (848 words)

	mamay
		According to their position, the normal or healthy society is characterised by strong class and group solidarities, which play the controlling function and prevent the manipulation of the people.
		The main contradiction of postindustrial society is the contradiction between the broadening autonomy of the individual and increasening regulation by the state.
		Civil society is normally in a state of change, but social structures are stable by their nature or at least have a tendency to stability.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /csacpub/russian/mamay.html (5586 words)

	Postmodern Theory and Karl Marx
		Ernest Mandel's extension of Marxist theory deals with postindustrial society in this light, arguing that the realities of modern industrial practice permeate every social sphere, reshaping the context in which capitalism is understood.
		Fredric Jameson continues this theoretical standpoint, asserting that postmodernism stands as a "corresponding cultural style" to postindustrial society, placing it in the historical context of late capitalism, rather than as a "historical rupture," as Baudrillard has suggested.
		Ultimately, the material conditions of postindustrial capitalism lend themselves to the extension of a Marxist theory of political and socio-economic transformation.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/6450/PostmoMarx.htm (1803 words)

	Sociology 7/E Chapter 4 -- Multiple Choice
		In postindustrial society, information is fast replacing objects as the center of our economy.
		Societies differ primarily in terms of social conflict.
		Traditional societies are characterized by mechanical solidarity based on moral likeness, whereas industrial societies are characterized by organic solidarity based on specialization.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/macionis4/chapter4/multiple1 (295 words)

	Catholic Charities and American Welfare
		He was, I think, bowing in the direction of Bell's analysis that postindustrial societies were quite different from any other previous society by reason of their character and shape.
		He argued that while we need to observe subsidiarity, that is to say, not go first to the state to solve all our social problems, the character of the social problems of postindustrial society requires an increased role for the state.
		In a postindustrial society, the church needs to reconfigure and reshape its understanding of these three principles, both in terms of what the state ought to do, what others in society ought to do, and what Catholic institutions ought to do.
	www.georgetown.edu /centers/woodstock/report/r-fea54a.htm (5114 words)

	Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots \| Chapter Overview
		Daniel Bell describes contemporary society as postindustrial because (1) we have moved away from goods-production towards service-provision; (2) blue-collar, manual labor has been replaced by professional and technical jobs; (3) theoretical knowledge now dominates practical knowledge; and (4) new intellectual technologies along with the fusion of science and innovation have become institutionalized.
		Bell argues that in postindustrial society a disjunction arises between social structures and culture, because while social structures remain dominated by rationality and efficiency, culture becomes increasingly irrational.
		The fact that postmodern society is increasingly characterized by a state of hyperconsumption is a concern of George Ritzer’s.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/007234962x/student_view0/chapter9/chapter_overview.html (1002 words)

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		Now in very recent decades, Western society has experienced-or is experiencing-another shift as technology has ushered in a postindustrial age.
		Society has only in recent centuries come to regard work, and its resultant income, as a source of self-esteem and a means of defining social position.
		"New contingencies" --that is, the vast changes brought on by postindustrial society-- "suggest the need for significantly different responses." Demographic, social, and economic changes will continue to take place, not only in Britain but around the world in both industrialized and developing countries.
	www.uwstout.edu /chd/rehab/kirsling/Briefs/BRIEFS2/RB0802.TXT (2034 words)

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		Earlier societies (hunting and gathering, pastoral, and horticultural) are found in only a few places in the world today.
		Today, postindustrial society is characterized by the application of information technology and the rise of consumer society.
		Marx and other social theorists have also argued that work is modern society has left people alienated from other people, themselves, and their potential.
	vc.wscc.cc.tn.us /soci1020/lecture_5.htm (1841 words)

	The Metaindustrial Village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If in industrial society our identity was based upon our homes, our cars, our appliances, then in the new planetary culture our identity will be based upon a new arrangement of time and space in our very being.
		The postindustrial world we took for granted from 1945 to 1974 is over, and the next thirty years will see a countermovement away from consumption to community.
		In America we would then discover to our grief just what it means to live in an oil-based postindustrial society in which 98 percent of the population is not involved in food production.
	www.motherearthnews.com /library/1978_March_April/The_Metaindustrial_Village (2450 words)

	Global Trends and American Strategic Traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Modern society, especially as it existed in Europe, Japan, and the United States for much of the twentieth century, was distinguished by its high degree of mass organization.
		Postmodern society, especially American society, is not characterized by standardized schools engaged in mass education in a national, often high, culture.
		Postmodern society is not characterized by large conventional armies, based on mass conscription and providing for defense of the national territory.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /csf/kurth.htm (8421 words)

	Modernization as Concept and Process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Modernization can be broadly defined as a historical process by which people in a defined territory acquire increased control over nature and society through the application of advanced technology, science, and expanded social cooperation.
		Equally crucial is the role of education in promoting the acquisition of new individual-mass skills such as literacy and technical competence with increasingly sophisticated machines, ranging from those on the assembly line through mechanized farm equipment and transportation vehicles to today's computer technology.
		Both industrialization and postindustrialization have disrupted the lives of countless people over time, depriving entire occupational groups of their traditional livelihoods and uprooting individuals from familiar group, residence, and religious moorings.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /psci/hancock/ModernizationHTML (635 words)

	lecture6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The family is the only social institution in these societies; the family fulfills all the functions the society needs
		Agricultural society: a society based on large-scale agriculture, dependent upon plows drawn by animals
		Postindustrial societies: a society based on information, services, and high technology, rather than on raw materials and manufacturing
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~cheneyns/introsoc/lecture6/lecture6.html (1831 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		So if we can measure how the members of a society spend their time, we have the elements of a certain sort of account of how that society works.
		This is what Jonathan Gershuny provides in Changing Times, using 120,000 survey-diary accounts of daily life in twenty countries from the 1960s on to construct an account of how time-use patterns have changed, in the developed world, over the last third of a century and to relate these changes to economic development.
		His analysis of the data and of existing theoretical approaches highlights, and goes some way to addressing, problems in the standard National Accounting classifications of work and will become the foundation of a new approach to the economics and sociology of time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198287879 (451 words)

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