INDUSTRIAL/MODERN SOCIETY

INDUSTRIAL/MODERN SOCIETY

In this type of societies, there is a dramatically increase in

the production surplus.

Advanced technologies are created. There was an

abundance of capital, and a surge of entrepreneurial spirit.

Unlike agrarian societies, industrial societies depend less

on labor. It is not as labor intensive as the previous

societies since machines are now utilized to facilitate

production.

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Other concerns of the industrial societies were the

individual, the urban environment or the city,

social workers and the other types of formal organization.

During this stage of development of society,

heavy machineries became part of production. Factories and cities began dotting the

landscape.

The industrial revolution started in the Britain between 1750 and 1850.

Like all other countries, Britain was previously an agricultural country. Industrial revolution is centered

merely on the production of cottons, but later on was adopted with other products. By 1850, the economy became based on the industry and factory production.

Technology made the industrialization faster and production better.

Advances in the transportation made exchange of goods

easier.

There is also the trend of specialization. Before the

community has to produce everything that is needed, but due to industrialization, people

started doing specific works wherein the surplus is traded to

other people. Work then is reduced to stages to increase

efficiency.

Industrialization is also associated with the idea of

capitalism. Capitalism champions the idea of free

trade or unrestricted exchange of good based on

supply and demand.

Industrialization, as earlier mentioned, brings with the reality of surplus, and with

surplus it requires the opening of new markets and new resources of materials or

natural resources for production.

There is then a closely connected relationship of

industrialization with colonialism, since more good

produced means that often the existing markets cannot absorb

or consume the supply.

As a result, there is the need to open new markets, to expand overseas so that these extra products could be consumed.

Hence, the expansion of industrialization also meant that Western powers made

colonies in the different continents.

During the 19th century, industrial cities were described as filthy

and very crowded. These sinister effects of industrialization were condemned by Karl Marx as the

exploitation of the rich and businessmen of the poor laborers

and the marginalized.

DISADVANTAGES

The industrial societies due to its insatiable demand

for higher production have harmed the world’s

resources. The push for industrialization was to

consume more resources, without realizing that the Earth’s resources are in

fact limited.

The shift to industrialization meant also that reliance of

people for work became less. Many workers were

displaces as a result of the introduction of newer

technologies and machineries. Craftsmen who used to weave and

spin cloth by hand either lost their job or became poorer in the process.

Women and children also became exploited and

suffered terribly with the inhumane conditions of the workplace and low

wages.

Farming lost its steam as urban migration

intensified, people from the urban or agricultural areas preferred working in the city than in the

farm.

Due to this migration, from the agrarian communities to cities, it destroyed informal mechanisms of social control (i.e. tsismis/gossip) which is

effective in a closely knit community, but which is

ineffective in the city where anonymity is the rule.

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