Industrial society

There are various categories of industrial society that may be examined.

   

Early Industrial societies

Early industrial societies include those power based on coal and transportation based on railroads.

Middle Industrial societies

Middle industrial include those with with power based petroleum, extensive use of electricity, and automobiles.

Late Industrial societies

Late industrial, with extensive reliance on computers are also significant. Other categories may be examined.


History

The history of industrial societies is entirely modern. Their future may be examined.

Modern history

These began to develop in the 18th century, although I do not yet have details of the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, or late 19th century. Numerous societies became industrial in the 19th century.I do not yet have details of the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, or late 19th century. In the 20th century, even more began to become industrialized. In the early 20th century, there were a few, but in the early-mid 20th century, mid 20th century, late-mid 20th, and late 20th century, more and more peoples became at lest partly industrial.

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By the early 21st century including the early 2000s, most societies had become at least partly industrialized. Further developments of the late 2000s can be followed in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected. The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 including 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected. February 2011 and March 2011 can be connected. The second quarter 2011 including April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 can be connected. The third quarter 2011 might be connected.

These may in part be projected into the future.

Other Sociology

Peoples of the world

Peoples of the world provide examples of industrial societies. Particular nations including Italy, South Korea, Burma, Ukraine, Colombia, South Africa, Argentina, Spain, Sudan, and Tanzania can be considered.

Western Civilization including the United Kingdom has the most examples of industrial societies. Anglic peoples including the United States have the most typical examples of industrial societies. Latin peoples are generally somewhat less industrialized. France can be connected. Hispanic peoples including those of Mexico are not heavily industrialized. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil are not heavily industrialized. Germanic peoples including Germany provide examples of industrial societies. Northeast European peoples including Russia have examples of industrial society.

Asiatic peoples are mostly only partly industrialized. They include Thailand. Middle Eastern peoples are not heavily industrialized. Iran can be considered. Egypt can be considered. Turkey can be considered. South Asian peoples including those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are partly industrialized. Oriental peoples including China and Japan are partly industrialized. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Vietnam are not highly industrialized. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines are not highly industrialized.

African peoples including those of Congo DR are not heavily industrialized. East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria are not heavily industrialized.

American Indian peoples such as are found in Mexico are generally not industrialized. Middle American Indian peoples including those of the southwestern United States are not highly industrialized. South American Indian peoples found in Brazil are not industrialized. North American Indians found in the United States are generally not industrialized.

Communities

Communities provide examples.

Other social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes and movements including the agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution including bronze age developments, early iron age developments, late iron age developments, and modernization can be connected. These societies have been developed through the changes of the industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution. The middle industrial revolution can be connected. The late industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors

Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected. Demographic change can be connected. Natural change can be connected.

Social change processes

Innovation can be connected. Transmission can be connected. Adaptation can be connected. Extinction can be connected.

Other social types

Agrarian society can be connected. Horticultural society can be connected. Hunting and gathering society can be connected.

Social structure

Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Religious traditions in industrial societies are largely derived from Abrahamic religion and secularism. Asiatic religion is not so strongly connected, and pagan religion is poorly connected. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured varieties can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief can be connected.

Government

Particular governments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activities including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical, manufacturing and extraction, building and construction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including distribution and exchange, consumption, and production can be connected.

Education including cultural institutions, teaching, and research can be connected. Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected.

Families including particular families, kinship, parenting, and marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture including cultural events, recreation and entertainment, occupations, and customs can be connected. Conceptual culture including philosophy, applied science, mathematics, literature, graphic arts, and language can be connected. Material culture including miscellanous artifacts, communication technology, transportation technology, clothing and dress, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology can be connected.

Anthropology

Particular groups can be connected. Human geography including European geography, Asian geography, African geography, North American geography, South American geography, and Oceanic geography can be connected. Human ecology including human effects on the environment, relations with other life, and environmental effects on people can be connected. Physical anthropology including human dispersion, racial variation, and human origins can be connected. Demography including population change, population size and structure, mortality, migration, and birth can be connected. Social foundations including social group behavior, social group types, social control, social interactions, and social presentation can be connected.

Personal studies

Biography can be connected. Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavior patterns, mind, and behavioral elements can be connected. The human body including form and appearance, disease, life cycle, body functions, and body systems can be connected.

Science

Biology including biohistory, ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected. Earth science including geohistory, physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology can be connected. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and local astronomy can be connected. Chemistry including chemical systems, chemical change, and chemical substances can be connected. Physics including the structure of matter, quantum physics, relativity, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and mechanics can be connected.


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