What is industralisation in terms of sociology?

Question

What is industralisation in terms of sociology?

Answer 1

The process of developing an economy founded on the mass manufacturing of goods. Industrialisation is associated with the urbanisation of society, an extensive division of labour, a wage economy, differentiation of institutions, and growth of mass communication and mass markets. Many western societies are now described as post-industrial since much economic activity is based on the production of services, knowledge or symbols.

Answer 2

Well i can tell you what happened socially bc of industrialization... People moved to uran areas and stopped having like 10 kids. also, they got different jobs, like working in a factory.

Answer 3

The age of industrialization started with mass production of goods for sale using factories, ie cars and all other consumer goods..........before industrialization we were a society of farmers.

Answer 4

In addition to technological, economic and political change (development of mass communications, mass transit, division of labour, democratisation, extension of the franchise and welfare) industrialisation has a impact on solidarity between individuals and groups of individuals. Industrialisation can be characterised by a shift from what French sociologist Emile Durkheim termed "mechanical solidarity" to "organic solidarity."

Mechanical solidarity is sort of bond that exist between individuals and groups in a homogeneous society. If you think of a clan, members are bound together by virtue of a sense of belonging, a common language, shared customs and, above all, a shared pedigree. Society is parcelled up according to social status and the function which each person plays within it. Yet when this society is attacked, all of its members jump to its defence as a group as they feel that it is the clan as a whole that is being attacked.

In modern industrial societies, all these elements of clan identity and membership are dissolved (this is due to mass migrations within societies,  a greater permeability of society and the division of labour). People cease to think of themselves as belonging to a whole - they become more individualistic. Yet despite greater individualism, men, more than ever, depend on each other for survival. One's occupation and function within society become the axis around which one's social life is constructed and survival depends on the ability of each group or "corporation" specialised in one sort of work, to relate to other groups. This is organic solidarity.

I hope I have provided a fruitful lead.

I recommend looking into Parson's Modernisation Theory and Toennies' distinction between Gemeinschaft and Geselschaft.

Answer 5

Materialisium.