post-industrial society

collocation in English

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post-industrial
adjective
uk
/ˌpəʊst.ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us
/ˌpoʊst.ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
belonging or relating to an economy that is no longer based on heavy industry, such as the making of ...
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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 ofpost-industrialandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A hallmark of apost-industrialsocietyis the prevalence of the white-collar, service sector rather than the blue-collar, industrial sector in its economy.
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Thus, the emerging risks ofpost-industrialsocietytranslate into downloading the management of social risks from the state, market and family to individuals.
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The former's vision ofpost-industrialsocietyis modelled on the paradigm of the ' ' scientific estate ' ' and on a revision of occupational spaces (office, university, etc.) as sites of social interaction.
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For this group of men, housing is often not secured by the usual routes but rather relies on informal networks, which are increasingly problematic in apost-industrialsociety.
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Looking at ourpost-industrialsocietyright now, one can define it as meaning short-term profit and long-term bankruptcy.
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We are now apost-industrialsociety, and that book is complete.
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The three great opportunities for this country in thepost-industrialsocietyare government, education and medicine.
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The fashionable idea of thepost-industrialsocietyhas generated some very broad views of the possible directions nations can take.
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There seems to be a myth that we are moving into a post-industrial era, that we have created apost-industrialsociety.
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But in what is now apost-industrialsociety, surely we no longer need to talk in terms which are descriptive of an industrial society.
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What we are failing to come to terms with is what is going to be the nature of thatpost-industrialsociety.
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In thepost-industrialsocietywe will have to recognise that the quality of life is more important than the material side of life.
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Some people say that we are moving into thepost-industrialsociety.
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We are an affluentpost-industrialsocietyliving in a confined space.
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I do not accept or even understand what people mean when they talk about apost-industrialsociety.
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We live in an almostpost-industrialsociety, and the issue for us is how to regenerate an industrial manufacturing society.
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First, we must ban all talk of thepost-industrialsociety.
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Thepost-industrialsocietyis perhaps dissolving the illusion that all change is change for the better—even if we dress it up with the word "progress".
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Current trends show that milder and renewable energy sources are increasingly becoming the only solution to the energy problem ofpost-industrialsociety.
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We are passing into thepost-industrialsociety.
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