The editorial dwells upon the technology-driven evolution from the Industrial to the Post-Information Society, indicating that this transition will bring about drastic transformations in our way of living, starting from the job market and then pervading all aspects at both individual and social levels. Great opportunities will come together with unprecedented challenges to living as we have alw...

Abstract Finland is among the most advanced welfare states in world. However, many surveys show that Finns are worried about state of Finnish and experiencing various inequalities. This study argues contrary to earlier studies, one can claim has a strong legitimacy think their society as just. Opinion polls taken since 1993 steady even increasing support. Furthermore, comparative analysis indic...

In the modern consciousness, they keep “classical” historicity and eschatology taking form of post-historicity post-apocalypticism. Such a state can be recorded in models consideration historical process expectation end history, both works authors at level “everyday” practices that use exploit history figure Apocalypse. It is worth noting expectations Apocalypse are no longer so tragic, built l...

The relationship between religion and civil society at the macro-level has attracted attention of sociologists but empirical detail how is connected to social relations practices that constitute local relatively lacking. This article explores contemporary communal significance religious dimension in using authors’ ethnographic fieldwork biographical interviews a post-industrial village North Ea...

In a post industrial society, every citizen can construct her own custom lifestyle and “select” her ideology from a large (but not infinite) number of choices. Rather than pushing the same object/information to a mass audience, marketing now tries to target each individual separately. The logic of new media technology reflects this new social logic ... Every hypertext reader gets her own versio...