Author: sensuscommunis_1fx7mu
-
Post-industrial societies
Finally, many industrial societies now appear to be entering yet another phase of technological development. In the early 1970s, Daniel Bell (1976) invented the term post-industrialism to refer to computer-linked technology supporting an information-based economy. While production in industrial societies focuses on factories and machinery that generate material goods, post-industrial production focuses on computers and other…
-
Industrial societies
Until industrialism, the main source of energy used in everyday activities was human and animals power. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around the 1750s, mills and factories started to rely on an absolutely new technology – flowing water and later – steam to power the ever-larger machinery that was never seen before. Industrialism…
-
Agrarian societies
About 5,000 years ago another technological revolution came starting in the Middle East that in the end will transform most of the world. This was the discovery of agriculture, the technology of large-scale farming using ploughs harnessed to animals or more powerful energy sources. The social significance of the animal-drawn plough and other technological innovations of…
-
Horticultural and pastoral societies
A few thousand years later, new technology arrived and started to change many hunting and gathering societies. Horticulture is technology based on using hand tools to cultivate plans. The hoe’s essential tools are the hoe to work the soil and the digging stick to punch holes in the ground for seeds. But it was not a fit…
-
Hunting and gathering societies
Let us start with hunting and gathering societies that refers to simple technology for hunting animals and gathering vegetation. From the emergence of our species until about 12,000 years ago, all humans were hunters and gatherers. It is interesting that hunting and gathering societies remained common up to several centuries back, even though if today…
-
History of societies
The discovery and development of societies is a never-ending story. There are more than 6,500 languages existing in the world, meaning, that we could expect to find a similar number of existing societies. It is a lot! But are those communities connected? Is there something in between? And why it is not one, not two…
-
Status anxiety: we are more than what we do (video)
In our modern world, the positions that we are taking in the professional life became extremely important for how we are described as human beings. With that comes cognitive pressure of being afraid to be misjudged or judged only from a very simplistic angle. Status anxiety is a constant tension or fear of being perceived…
-
A note on common sense
We live in an extremely interesting and complicated world – at our times we have more resources and wealth that was ever thought to be accessible for humankind. We live in a world where technically everyone could have a house, a car, a TV, an education, and all other sorts of goods. But so far this…