SOC 3340 Lecture Notes - Dalhousie University, Nico Stehr, Individualism
4 Nov 2013
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Considerable social transformations since the time of durkheim, marx, weber. These social transformations have altered the social world and our behaviour. Ref: daniel bell: the coming of post-industrial society. First was the agricultural era production of food important. 2nd was the industrial era which was built on human production and services. 3rd was the information era based on information, communications, sales and services. 1800s only 1/3 of canadians worked in service sector. 2000: this proportion grew to 9/10 jobs. 1991-2001: people working in the computer related service jobs doubled (baldwin. % distribution in the canadian economy production argriculture industrial service transformations: bell. Predicted shifts in the location of work. Today, people live in 1 place, work in another location. Bell reasoned that theoretical knowledge would be more central to people"s jobs: Bell anticipated computer technology as the driving force in contemporary society. Predictions confirmed 1970-2000 by ict (information, communication, technology) the information society.
