A Sociology of Industrialisation
Author | : David Brown |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Gran Bretaña - Industria - Historia |
ISBN | : 9780333235591 |
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Author | : David Brown |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Gran Bretaña - Industria - Historia |
ISBN | : 9780333235591 |
Author | : David Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Badham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317650522 |
The concept of industrial society plays a dominant role in the social sciences. The ‘Great Divide’ between pre-industrial and industrial societies is commonly assumed to be the main bridge separating modern societies from the past, and distinguishing ‘developed’ from ‘undeveloped’ states in the present era. In history, economics, politics and sociology the concept of industrial society underlies a wide variety of discussions, particularly those relating to economic development and social progress. Outside academic writing, too, the concept exerts a great deal of influence. In the developing world, there is a widespread concern to ‘industrialise’, whilst in the developed world there is growing uneasiness as to whether ‘industrialisation’ is beneficial or not, but still the concept is central. This book examines critically the concept of industrial society, its pervasiveness and influence. It reviews all the major theories of industrial society and the research into the changing character of post-industrial societies. It argues that the decision to use the concept severely restricts the social imagination, and that the concept becomes increasingly less useful as criticism of the equating of industrialisation with social progress grows.
Author | : Tony Watson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134784805 |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Herbert Blumer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351328743 |
Herbert Blumer wrote continuously and voluminously, and consequently left a vast array of unpublished work at the time of his death in 1987. This posthumously published volume testifies further to his perceptive analysis of large-scale social organizations and elegant application of symbolic interactionist principles. Blumer's focus on the processual nature of social life and on the significance of the communicative interpretation of social contexts is manifest in his theory of industrialization and social change. His theory entails three major points: industrialization must be seen in processual terms, and the industrialization process is different for different historical periods; the consequences of industrialization are a function of the interpretive nature of human action and resembles a neutral framework within which groups interpret the meaning of industrial relations, and the industrial sector must be viewed in terms of power relations; industrial societies contain inherently conflicting interests. The editors' introductory essay outlines Blumer's metatheoretical stance (symbolic interactionism) and its emphasis on the adjustive character of social life. It places Blumer's theory in the context of contemporary macro theory, including world systems theory, resource dependence theory, and modernization theory.
Author | : Alan Swingewood |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : 9780333558614 |
Author | : David R. Meyer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003-05-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801871412 |
Farms that were on poor soil and distant from markets declined, whereas other farms successfully adjusted production as rural and urban markets expanded and as Midwestern agricultural products flowed eastward after 1840. Rural and urban demand for manufactures in the East supported diverse industrial development and prosperous rural areas and burgeoning cities supplied increasing amounts of capital for investment.
Author | : V. Walkerdine |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012-01-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230359191 |
How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threats, insecurities and closure? How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now? While attempts to regenerate communities are everywhere, we do not often hear from the people themselves just how they managed to create safe collective spaces or how the fall of the whole house of cards brought with it effects which can be felt by young people who never knew the town when it was an industrial heartland. We hear the story of how men and women tried to cope and still want to retain their community in the face of its destruction. What can they and will they have to pass to the next generation and where will that leave the young people themselves, who have nothing to stay for but are unable to leave? This book examines these crucial questions facing post-industrial societies.
Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1090 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author | : Wolfgang Schivelbusch |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520957903 |
The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.