What is the difference between industrial and postindustrial society?

What will be an ideal response?


Industrial society is based on the manufacture of goods; postindustrial society is based on the production of information and services.

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Which one of the following practices helps to explain how Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il have come to dominate North Korean emotional life?

a. Images of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il are rarely seen. b. Five percent of book titles in North Korea are about the two Kims. c. Objects that the two leaders touch are destroyed. d. North Korean students at all levels take hundreds of hours of coursework that focus on the lives and accomplishments of the two Kims.

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____ relationships are characterized by intense intellectual, emotional, and when appropriate, physical communion

a. Satisfactory b. Intimate c. Consummate d. Connected

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Traditionally, ______ land was cultivated, controlled, and passed down from generation to generation by women.

A. Cherokee B. Navajo C. Lakota D. Puyallup

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Why is a dyad unstable?

a. It has fewer people. b. Members can use each other to gain leverage in the group. c. One member can decide to dissolve the group. d. It has too many people.

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