industrial society

collocation in English

meaningsofindustrialandsociety

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industrial
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofindustrialandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He argues that this conceptualisation builds a refuge of meaning within the bourgeois romantic critique ofindustrialsociety.
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The basic point is that welfare states developed in the shadow ofindustrialsociety.
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However, such pluralism does not sit easily alongside statements which argue that 'the family remains the pivotal institution in modernindustrialsociety' (p. 114).
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Yet by the 1890s the pathology ofindustrialsocietypresented a range of degenerative influences which concerned biologically minded social reformers.
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There was a 'balance between the integrative impulses of informal primary relationships and the segregative relationships of formalindustrialsociety'.
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Employers would pay not because they were negligent, but because accidents were inherent in anindustrialsocietyand therefore a cost of doing business.
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At times, however, they do seem to suggest that modernity is co-extensive withindustrialsociety.
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It was all about making and thereby forming and transforming the capitalistindustrialsociety.
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This would, with time, raise the country to the status of a full-fledgedindustrialsociety.
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He starts with the premise that, as an extension of a capitalist,industrialsociety, government will work as the tool of capital.
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In his argument, forms of welfare, including retirement pensions, are crucial to constructing a stable life course, consistent with the requirements of modernindustrialsociety.
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Increased waste generation was one facet of the growth of an urbanindustrialsociety.
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Again the eighteenth century is the sketchy before-picture, the primeval sludge out of which modern,industrialsocietyemerges.
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If nationalism was thought only to be present inindustrialsociety, the identification of an earlier origin seemed a gain in knowledge.
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These elites, however, deliberately used proto-nationalism for military purposes that operated autonomously from the logic ofindustrialsociety.
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