Society 5.0: A Political-Ideological Concept

Sandro Serpa
University of the Azores

Abstract

Society 5.0. is a concept of society that has emerged very recently in Japan and involves mobilizing the potential of digital technology in the development of a super-smart society in which the promotion of the quality of life of all people is at the core. This communication has the objective of analyzing this concept of Society 5.0, focusing on its political-ideological dimension through a bibliographic research. It is concluded that Society 5.0 is inevitable as a model or paradigm, at least in its more general forms, of the society to come. However, social transformation in the sense advocated by Society 5.0, as a political-ideological concept, needs to be considered also under the critical perspective of the social sciences to address the implicit idea of the inevitability of a society with a better quality of life for all its members. Progress and social prosperity for all members of society that seem to emerge from the implementation of Society 5.0 is not inevitable. Keywords: society 5.0, ideology, digital society, social transformation, social development.


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