The Relationship of Industrial Society to Knowledge

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.

Notes:

The two are codependent, one cannot exist without the other; therefore, our entire modern world relies on science.

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Thought and Change

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Gellner , Ernest (1969), Thought and Change, Retrieved on 2012-05-29

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