Abstract
Since the mid 70's, the advanced industrial societies have been suffering, in spite of their affluence, from the socioeconomic stagnation caused by the limits of growth. The coexistence of affluence and limits of growth indicates that they have reached at the ceiling of social evolution. Under this situation, the new technological revolution represented by microelectronics and the idea of advanced information. society have promptly been highlighted since the beginning of the 80's and now become a social movement. This movement evokes the social concern on a technologically centered paradigm for the breakthrough of the stagnation and the problems which the industrial society holds now are likely to be gone behind that. Rejecting this standpoint, I discuss, in this paper, how the three factors of the affluence, limits of growth and new technological revolution relate to the reorganization of order in the industrial society.
