Catastrophe and Social Change. Samuel Henry Prince

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664609069

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       INTRODUCTION

       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

       CHAPTER IX Conclusion

       INDEX

       A

       B

       C

       D

       E

       F

       G

       H

       I

       J

       K

       L

       M

       N

       O

       P

       R

       S

       T

       U

       V

       W

       Z

       VITA

PREFACE

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      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 grateful lines can ill-express his obligation to his Professors of the Department of Sociology. To Professor F. H. Giddings the volume owes its inspiration and much of its social philosophy. To Professor A. A. Tenney it owes its present form and structure and any literary excellence it may possess. Professor R. E. Chaddock has read the manuscript throughout and has contributed many helpful suggestions. Professor S. M. Lindsay has read the chapter on Social Legislation, and Professor R. S. Woodworth of the Department of Psychology, that on Disaster Psychology. The author is under special tribute to Professor H. R. Seager, and to Professor Tenney, who most cheerfully sacrificed part of a summer vacation to read and revise the manuscript and proof.

      Without the walls of the University there are also those who have given aid. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Dr. Edward T. Devine of New York, of Mr. C. C.