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===Economic reorientation===
{{Main|Economy of Scotland}}
[[File:Oil platform in the North SeaPros.jpg|thumb|right|A [[drilling rig]] located in the [[North Sea]]]]
After1970-ben Worldfelfedezték Waraz II,Északi-tengeren Scotland'saz economicóriási situation became progressively worse due to overseas competitionForties-olajmezőt, inefficientmajd industry, and industrial disputes.<ref>W. Knox, ''Industrial Nation: Work, Culture and Society in Scotland, 1800 – present'' (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), p. 255.</ref> This only began to change in the 1970s, partly due to the discovery and development of [[North Sea]] oil and gas and partly as Scotland movedvalamivel towardskésőbb a more serviceBrent-basedmezőt economyis. TheA discoverykitermelés of1975-ben thekezdődött giantel [[Fortiesés oilfield]]Skócia inegy October 1970 signalled that Scotland was about to becomecsapásra a majorvilág oilnagy producingkőolaj- nation,és a view confirmed when Shell Expro discovered the giant [[Brent oilfield]] in the northern North Sea east of Shetland in 1971. Oil production started from the Argyll field (now Ardmore) in June 1975, followed by Forties in November offöldgáztermelői thatközé yearlépett.<ref>J. Vickers and G. Yarrow, ''Privatization: an Economic Analysis'' (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 6th edn, 1995), p. 317.</ref> DeindustrialisationAz took1970-es placeés rapidly80-as inévekben theleépítették 1970sa andhagyományos 1980snehézipart, asaz mostgyárak ofjelentős therészét traditional industries drastically shrank or were completely closed downbezárták. AHelyét newegy service-orientedúj, economyszolgáltatásokon emergedalapuló togazdaság replacevette traditional heavy industries.át,<ref>P. L. Payne, "The end of steelmaking in Scotland, c. 1967–1993", ''[[Scottish Economic and Social History]]'', 1995, vol. 15 (1), pp. 66–84.</ref><ref>R. Finlay, ''Modern Scotland: 1914–2000'' (Profile Books, 2004), ch. 9.</ref> This includedmint a resurgentgyorsan financialfejlődő servicespénzügyi industryszektor. andAZ theipar [[electronicshúzóágazatává manufacturing]]az of [["Silicon Glen]]" övezet elektronikai gyártói váltak.<ref>{{Citation|last=H. Stewart |title=Celtic Tiger Burns Brighter at Holyrood |journal=The Guardian |date=6 May 2007 |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/scotland/comment/0,,2073303,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206135231/http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/may/06/scottishparliament.devolution |archive-date=6 December 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Religious diversity and decline===
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