Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics. Industrial Society

P. 337–385.

Akaev A., Malkov S., Davydova O., Kovaleva N., Malkov A., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A.

This chapter presents the results of using the set of basic models described in the chapter “Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics. A General Approach” to model the dynamics of an industrial society. Both interactions in the “society–nature” system and social interactions within society between the main social groups (including economic and political interactions) are considered. It is shown that industrial society is characterized by the continuous growth of the main demographic and economic characteristics due to the high pace of technological development and the expansion of the resource base associated with this. Based on the modeling of social interactions, the main structural and functional features of an industrial society are identified, leading to the formation of social structures of the so-called Y-type (which are characterized by a market economy, republican forms of government, and individualism in the sociopsychological sphere). It is shown that a necessary condition for the effective functioning of Y-type social structures is economic growth, in the absence of which they experience crisis and transformation into structures of other types.

Keywords: industrial society, social interactions, technological development

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Springer, 2023.