Название: Catastrophe and Social Change
Автор: Samuel Henry Prince
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Документальная литература
isbn: 4057664609069
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Samuel Henry Prince
Catastrophe and Social Change
Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664609069
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I Catastrophe and Social Disintegration
CHAPTER II Catastrophe and Social Psychology
CHAPTER III Catastrophe and Social Organization
CHAPTER IV Catastrophe and Social Organization (Cont'd)
CHAPTER V Catastrophe and Social Economy
CHAPTER VI Catastrophe and Social Legislation
CHAPTER VII Catastrophe and Social Surplus
CHAPTER VIII Catastrophe and Social Change
PREFACE
The following pages embody the result of an observational study of the social phenomena attendant upon one of the greatest catastrophies in history—the Halifax Disaster. The idea of the work was suggested while carrying out a civic community study of the disaster city under the direction of Professor F. H. Giddings of Columbia University.
The account deals first with the shock and disintegration as the writer observed it. Individual and group reactions are next examined in the light of sociological theory. The chapters on Social Organization are an effort to picture that process as it actually occurred.
The writer has also tried faithfully to record any important contribution which Social Economy was able to make in the direction of systematic rehabilitation. Special reference is made to private initiative and governmental control in emergency relief. This monograph is in no sense, however, a relief survey. Its chief value to the literature of relief will lie in its bearing upon predictable social movements in great emergencies.
Nor is the book a history of the disaster. It is rather, as the title suggests, an intensive study of two social orders, between which stands a great catastrophe, and its thesis is the place of catastrophe in social change.
In the preparation of this work, which the author believes to be the first attempt to present a purely scientific and sociological treatment of any great disaster, he has received invaluable assistance. A few СКАЧАТЬ