Ekonomsko-socijalne promjene u suvremenome finskom društvu
Economic-Social Change in Contemporary Finland

Summary/Abstract: During the past twenty years Finland has changed from a traditionally agricultural community into a modern, highly industrialized country. The impact of the scientific and technological revolution, the use of new sources of energy, a high degree of social division of labour, expansion of education, differentiation in the pattern of occupations, a steady rise in the living standard, these are the main factors of change in the economic structure, the dynamic growth and the modernisation of the Finnish society. A series of economic changes gradually altered also the character of the social structure of Finnish society. Changes in the structure of industry and in the pattern of employment, beginning in the mid-sixties, occurred at such a fast rate as to produce an expansion in the industrial, construction and service sectors which far outstripped the role of agriculture, both in terms of output value and of the number of employed. The profound structural change resulted in an expansion of new occupations at the cost of agricultural ones, giving the population employed in industry and in the service sector a leading position in the society. The prominent role of the tertiary sector in the highly developed Finnish society is a corollary of the modem national industry, and of the country’s high level of development. This process of economic development, characterized by a decline of the primary sector, first in favour of the secondary, and later of the tertiary sector, induced fundamental changes in the population structure and in the life of the people. The dominant position of the tertiary sector and its further expansion have a special significance and far-reaching consequences for the entire economic-social transformation of modern Finnish society.

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