ABSTRACT
By discussing the departure of civilization beyond the economic epoch, this chapter presents a terminological definition and a theoretical grasp of the most global change that humanity has ever experienced. Labour is the element inevitably shadowing the romantic perception of the economic epoch as an epoch of freedom and equality. A number of researchers point to new principles in the social and economic organization of society, creating the theory of 'organized society' and 'conventional society'. In Western sociological science, and particularly in the conceptions of post-industrial society, the term 'post-economic society' has been encountered only a few times, and then only in the period when the tendency was in its stage of emergence. Man's inherent desire to satisfy his material needs with the least possible effort resulted in the triumph of rationalism, which proved to be the basis of the formation of economic society.
