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Post-industrial society
Society whose service sector provides more economic value than manufacturing / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a shift from a manufacturing to a services economy. For societal effects of the Industrial Revolution, see Industrial Revolution. For offshoots of industrial music, see List of industrial music genres.
In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy.
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The term was originated by Alain Touraine and is closely related to similar sociological theoretical concepts such as post-Fordism, information society, knowledge economy, post-industrial economy, liquid modernity, and network society. They all can be used in economics or social science disciplines as a general theoretical backdrop in research design.
As the term has been used, a few common themes, including the ones below have begun to emerge.
- The economy undergoes a transition from the production of goods to the provision of services.
- Knowledge becomes a valued form of capital; see Human capital.
- Producing ideas is the main way to grow the economy.
- Through processes of globalization and automation, the value and importance to the economy of blue-collar, unionized work, including manual labor (e.g., assembly-line work) decline, and those of professional workers (e.g., scientists, creative-industry professionals, and IT professionals) grow in value and prevalence.
- Behavioral and information sciences and technologies are developed and implemented (e.g., behavioral economics, information architecture, cybernetics, game theory and information theory).