Pre-industrial society

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Some attributes of the pre-industrial societies

• Limited production (i.e. artisanship vs. mass production)
• Primarily had an agricultural economy
• Limited division of labor- i.e. Capitalism needs a vast amount of specialized knowledge and skills due to the complex nature of industrial production. In pre-industrial societies, production was relatively simple and, thus, the number of specialized crafts was limited.
• Limited variation of social class
  Social class
  
  Social class refers to the hierarchy distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. Usually most societies have some notion of social class , but concretely defined social classes are not found in every known type of human societies....
  es
• Parochialism
  Parochialism
  
  Parochialism means being provincial, being narrow in scope, or considering only small sections of an issue.The term originates from the idea of a parish , which is one of the smaller division within many Christian churches such as the Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church churches....
  - Social theories hold that communication
  Communication
  
  Communication is commonly defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs...",, 1: an act or instance of transmitting and 3 a: "a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or beha...
  s were limited between human communities in pre-industrial societies. Few had a chance to see or hear beyond their own village. In contrast, industrial societies grew with the help of faster means of communication, having more information
  Information
  
  Information as a Conveyed concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control system, data, form, instruction, knowledge, Meaning , stimulation, pattern, perception, and knowledge representation....
   at hand about the world, allowing knowledge transfer
  Knowledge transfer
  
  Knowledge transfer in the fields of organizational development and organizational learning is the practical problem of transferring knowledge from one part of the organization to another organization parts of the organization....
   and cultural diffusion
  Cultural diffusion
  
  Cultural diffusion, as first conceptualized by the famous Alfred L. Kroeber in his influential 1940 paper Stimulus Diffusion, or trans-cultural diffusion in later reformulations, is used in cultural anthropology and cultural geography to describe the spread of culture items ? such as ideas, styles, religions, technology, contact lin...
   between them.
• Pre-industrial societies developed largely in rural
  Rural
  
  Rural areas are large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations. Today, 75 percent of the United States' inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, but cities occupy only 2 percent of the country....
   communities. Capitalism developed largely in urban
  Urban area
  
  An urban area is an area with an increased Population density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be city, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlet ....
   areas.

See also

• British Agricultural Revolution
  British Agricultural Revolution
  
  The British Agricultural Revolution describes a period of development in Britain between the 17th century and the end of the 19th century, which saw a massive increase in agricultural productivity and net output....
  
• Industrialisation
  Industrialisation
  
  Industrialization is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industry one....
  
• Modernization theory
  Modernization theory
  
  Modernization theory is the theory used to summarize modern transformations of social life. The theory looks at the internal factors of the country....
  
• Family economy
  Family economy
  
  Family Economy is used to denote the basic structure of production and consumption in the preindustrial Europe. In the family economy there were regional variations, which were how different places were different in family economy....
  

Bibliography

• Grinin, L.
  Leonid Grinin
  
  Leonid Grinin is a philosophy of history and sociologist.Born in Kamyshin , Grinin attended Volgograd Pedagogical University, where he got an Master's degree in 1980....
   2007. Periodization of History: A theoretic-mathematical analysis. In: . Ed. by Leonid Grinin, Victor de Munck, and Andrey Korotayev
  Andrey Korotayev
  
  Andrey Korotayev is an anthropology, economic historian, and sociology....
  . Moscow: KomKniga/URSS. P.10-38. ISBN 9785484010011.