Introductory Lecture: The Sociology of Industrial Societies

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Welcome!
Sociology of Industrial Societies

• Introductory Lecture The Sociology of
  Industrial Societies

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• Lecture Plan
• The Sociology of Industrial Societies
• The Sociology of Industrial Societies
• Substantive issues covered in the course
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• The Sociology of Industrial Societies
• Primary focus on societies
• of the Industrial Revolution
• (c.1750-1850 in GB)
• Interest in the distinctive
• features of industrial socs
• Rapid technological advance
• Mechanization and mass production
• Complex division of labour
• Large-scale urbanization, etc.
• Particular interest in the development of
  industrial societies in the contemporary period

GDP per capita, IMF 2006

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• The Sociology of Industrial Societies
• Focus on explaining the major social changes
  associated with the development of industrial
  societies, specifically
• Changing social structures and social
  institutions
• Changing social relations and social
  inequalities
• Adoption of a cross-nationally comparative lens,
  so as to
• Identify any convergence among industrial
  societies (suggestive of a logic of
  industrialization)
• Understand any differences/divergences that we
  find

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Some of the substantive issues covered in the
course
Changing social inequalities
Changing social structures
Changing social institutions
Changing social relations
Growing social mobility?
A secular society?
Multi-ethnic society?
Income polarization?
Rising meritocracy?
Gender division of labour?
The family in crisis?
Social gradient in health?
Profitable social ties?
Education for all?
(Under) Development?
Welfare capitalism(s)?

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  Industrial Societies

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  Industrial Societies

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Next week Classical sociological theories of
industrial societies
Marx
Weber
Durkheim

• Introductory Lecture The Sociology of
  Industrial Societies

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