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Pre-industrial society refers to specific social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
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Pre-industrial society refers to specific social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomics and cultural conditions in United Kingdom....
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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....
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  • 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.