Catastrophe and Social Change

Catastrophe and Social Change

Catastrophe and Social Change - Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax DisasterThe catastrophe in sociological...
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Catastrophe and Social Change

Catastrophe and Social Change

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Catastrophe and Social Change

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Prince, Samuel Henry
Format: eBook
Language: English

Catastrophe and Social Change - Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster

The catastrophe in sociological literatureThe catastrophic view vs. progress in evolutionFactors in social changeThe stimuli factorsWhat crises meanCommunities and great vicissitudesCauses of immobilityCatastrophe and progressHistoric cases suggested for study. There are many virgin fields in Sociology. This is one of the attractions the subject has for the scientific mind. But of all such fields none is more interesting than the factor of catastrophe in social change. And strangely enough, if there are but few references to the problem in all our rapidly-growing literature, it is not because catastrophies are few. Indeed it would seem that with the advent of the industrial age, disasters grow more frequent every year.[1] Many are small, no doubt, touching but the life of a village or a borougha broken dyke, a bridge swept out by ice, a caved-in mine. Others again write themselves on the pages of Historyan Ohio flood, an Omaha tornado, a Chicago fire, a San Francisco earthquake, a Halifax explosion. Each in its own way inscribes its records of social changesome to be effaced in a twelve-monthsome to outlast a generation. Records they are, for the most part unread. How to read them is the problem. And it may be that when readers have grown in number and the script is better known, we shall be able to seize the moment of catastrophe and multiply immeasurably its power for social good. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37580
Author: Prince, Samuel Henry
Release Date: Sep 30, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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