Industrial
Related: culture industry - industry - industrial design - industrial music - industrial revolution - mass society
Compare: pre-industrial society and culture - pro-industrial society and culture
Definition
Of or relating to industry.Industrial society
In sociology, industrial society refers to a society with a modern societal structure. Such a structure developed in the west in the period of time following the industrial revolution. Pre-modern or pre-industrial societies are also called agrarian societies. Industrial societies are generally mass societies.
Some theoreticians -- namely Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens and Manuel Castells -- argue that we are located in the middle of a transformation or transition from industrial societies to post-modern societies. The triggering technology for the change from an agricultural to an industrial organisation was steam power, allowing mass production and reducing the argicultural work necessary. Identified as catalyst or trigger for the transition to post-modern or informational society is global information technology. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_society [Feb 2006]