The transition to a postindustrial society is characterized basically by the increase in the proportion of the population category that is engaged in the service sector. For example, in modern developed countries, the distribution of the main areas of labor activity looks approximately this way: the service sector occupies about 60%, agriculture - about 5% and industry up to 35%. If a revolution in the latter sector and industrialization several centuries ago assumed the replacement of manual labor by machine and the widespread spread of technological innovations-from the loom to the machine-building plants-then the postindustrial society is characterized by the outflow of a considerable number of people from the production sphere and their transition to services, Knowledge. Once, during the era of the industrial revolution in Europe, workers' movements arose in a number of countries based on the idea that cars would replace people and deprive them of the last opportunity to work in the industrial sphere. The Luddites and saboteurs tried their best to stop or delay technical progress. By the way, the very word "sabotage" comes from the French name of the shoe (sabot), and with the help of them the work of looms was deliberately blocked . This idea finds its real embodiment in our days, when the development of technologies really allows to leave the lion's share of material production and reduce the participation of people here to a minimum, which can be observed with the example of the advanced states of the planet: Spain, the USA, Sweden, France and so on. However, this does not mean depriving people of the opportunity to earn, on the contrary, facilitates the latter in many ways and allows them simply to move to other areas of activity. Let us formulate these features in more detail and structured ways.
In the economic sphere, post-industrial society is characterized by certain moments. Namely:
- High level of use of various information for the development of the economy;
- Domination of the service sector;
- Individualization of consumption and production;
- Automation and robotization of almost all spheres in management and production;
- Implementation of cooperation with the rest of wildlife;
- Active development of environmentally friendly and resource-saving technologies.
In the political sphere, post-industrial society is also characterized by certain features. In particular:
- A strong civil society in which law and law prevail;
- Political pluralism, expressed by a significant number of parties and movements;
- The emergence of a new democratic form, which is based on consensus and various concessions to opposing forces.
In the social sphere, post-industrial society is characterized by the following features:
- Erasing class differences;
- Growth in the number of middle class;
- Increasing differentiation of the level of knowledge, their professionalization;
- High degree of social mobility;
- The life expectancy in information societies is usually higher than in industrial (and significantly higher than in agrarian).
Consider one more area. In the spiritual sphere, a post-industrial society is characterized by:
- The special role of education and science;
- The development of an individualized type of consciousness;
- Necessity of continuous self-education.