Living in the Industrial (21ST Century) Society Term Paper

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Living in the Industrial (21st Century) Society

One of the most revolutionary events and changes that happened in all of the world's societies is the emergence of the Industrial Revolution during the turn of the 21st century. During this period, human civilization moved from a communal form of living to a highly-industrialized society, wherein commodities and the needs of people became readily available in quantity because of the invention of machineries and the process of mass production. With the growth and development that the Industrial Revolution has brought to the world societies, many people have lived in what now we call as the 'capitalist societies,' and the backbone of most people's living and income comes from the rule of economics and providing people with the means to acquire their wants and needs. This, perhaps, is the most important characteristic that the Industrial or Capitalist society brought to human civilization, that is, the development of commodities that people need at an inexpensive cost due to availability as a result of mass production.

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Although many sociologists and social philosophers like Karl Marx have cited several dysfunctions of the Industrialist society to human civilization and criticized its functions and importance in the society, such as the prolonging of the oppression of the proletariats (the worker society) by the bourgeois society (or the elitist/business owners society) and the decline of human living conditions due to increased poverty and inequality among people, the society of the 21st century remains to be the most vital of all societies that developed and emerged in the world. This is because, in the Industrialist society, people have achieved social development in terms of upward social mobility among people, better living conditions due to developments in medical, technological, economical, and even environmental sectors of the society, and the ability of the society to provide for its people's needs and wants in life.

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