Characteristics

Post-industrial society

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Clark's Sector model for US economy 1850 -2009.^[1]

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.

The concept was popularized by Daniel Bell, and is closely related to similar sociological theoretical constructs such as post-fordism, information society, knowledge economy, post-industrial economy, liquid modernity, and network society. They all can be used in economics or other social science disciplines as a general theoretical backdrop in research design.

Contents

• 1 Characteristics
• 2 Origins
• 3 Valuation of knowledge
• 4 Creativity culture
• 5 Critics
• 5.1 Neologism
• 5.2 Social critique
• 6 See also
• 7 References
• 8 External links

Characteristics

As the term has been used, a few common themes (not limited to those below) have begun to emerge.

1. The economy undergoes a transition from the production of goods to the provision of services.
2. Knowledge becomes a valued form of capital, see human capital.
3. Producing ideas is the main way to grow the economy.
4. 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.
5. Behavioral and information sciences and technologies are developed and implemented. (e.g. behavioral economics, information architecture, cybernetics, Game theory and Information theory.)

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