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

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The author presents an observational sociological analysis of the social effects of a catastrophic urban explosion, tracing immediate shock, disintegration of daily life, and crowd and individual psychological responses. He examines how spontaneous mutual aid and primitive instincts give way to organized relief, leadership, and the interaction of voluntary associations and governmental agencies. Later chapters assess economic rehabilitation, principles of relief, legislative responses, social surplus and insurance, and indicators of long-term change such as urban planning, housing, public health, education, and community spirit, arguing that catastrophe can act as a catalyst for reorganization and social progress.

Lookers-on, stimulus of, 21, 78, 145

M

Magic, 20, 78

Martial law, 101

Maternity, 48, 135

Mass relief, 85

Medical inspection, 136

Medical social service, 87, 88, 89, 98, 140

Mental hygiene, 134

Mental unity, 41

Meteorological pressure, 65

Military and naval organization, 51, 60, 63, 68, 88, 101, 102, 122, 143, 145

Ministerial association, 139

Models, 21, 77, 78

Modes of affective experience, 44

Morale, 21, 106, 108, 145

Morality, 20, 97

Mores, 70

Morgue service, 39, 91, 98

Mortality, 112

Municipal control, 101, 102, 103, 104

Mutual aid, 55, 56, 57, 58

N

Navy, vide military

News-notice, 115

Normality, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 79, 142

O

Obstruction and the human will, 52

Occupational change, 113

Oneiric delirium, 46

Organization, vide social, relief

Orientation, 123

Original tendencies, 39

P

Pain economy, 112

Pain, 53, 54

Parental instinct, 40, 41

Pensions, 90

Percentage of indifference, 129

Percentage of interest, 129

Personal crises, 18

Phenomena, of bereavement, 47; of crowd psychology, 35, 41, 45; diverse, 35; of emotion, 44; of endurance, 52, 53; post-catastrophic, 48; of repression, 49

Philanthropy, 52, 69, 116

Physical factors in society, 67, 142

Physiological reactions, 35, 36, 52

Pity, 39

Pleasure economy, 112

Pluralistic behavior, vide behavior

Plural leadership, 49

Police, 76, 101, 102

Political action, 64, 76, 129

Political Science, 103

Poor laws, 101

Population, 19, 67, 113, 114, 128, 137, 144

Post-catastrophic phenomena, 48

Precipitating agent, 16, 144, 145

Preparedness, 64

Press, 72

Pressure, social, 63, 77

Primitive household, 69

Principles of relief, vide relief

Production, 19

Profiteering, psychology of, 51

Procedure, 23, 79, 102, 109

Progress, in catastrophe, 21, 22, 23, 55, 98, 108, 146; and change, 21; degree of, 21; and evolution, 14, 15; meaning of, 21; and relief, 80; in social legislation, 23

Protocracy, 60, 70

Psychiatry, 134

Psychological factors in society, 67, 142

Psychology, analytic, 49; crowd, 35, 41, 45; disaster, 35, 56; of helpfulness, 56, 85; of helplessness, 49; of insanity, 46; of profiteering, 51; of relief, 49, 94; social, 35; and sociology, 19, 35

Public opinion, 23, 84, 86, 93

Public safety, 132, 136

Public utilities, 71

Pugnacity, instinct of, 40

R

Reconditioning of instincts, 18

Recreation, 19, 73, 101, 129, 137

Recuperation of society, 20, 35, 112, 114, 117, 143

Regional influence, 66

Regulative system of society, 31

Rehabilitation, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 94, 98, 104, 105, 107

Religion, 64, 118, 120, 121

Religious institutions, 32, 63, 69, 70, 74, 77, 85, 95, 120, 139

Relief, administration of, 44, 66, 83, 86, 87, 93, 94; division of labor in, 69; fluctuation of, 116; leadership in, 61, 103, 116; medical, 61, 62, 65; military in, 51, 60, 63, 68; organization of, 59; psychology of, 49, 94; principles of, 81, 84, 85, 96; procedure in, 79; relation to progress, 80; residuum of, 97; reserve, 98; secret service in, 98; shelter, 63, 64, 66, 82, 90; stages in, 85

Repression, 49, 50

Reproductive system of society, 31

Resentment, 45, 49

Residuum of relief, 97

Resumption of normal society, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75

Restitution, principle of, 94, 95

Retrogressive evolution, 15

Revolution, 17, 22

Ritual, 20

Rumor, responsiveness to, 43, 63

S

Sabbath observance, 77

Safety, public, 132, 136

Sanitation, 66, 133, 134

Schools, vide educational institutions

Science, 33, 88

Security, feelings of, 41

Self-control, social, 70

Segregation, 64

Self-preservation, 31, 40

Sensation, 36, 38, 54

Sense perception, 37, 38

Sensorium, social, 59

Service, social, 80, 82, 84, 98, 117, 139, 143

Shibboleths, 77

Shock, reaction, 31, 36, 45, 54, 60, 91, 141

Social, action, 64; aggregation, 62; age, 139; choices, 121; consciousness, 60; conservation, 79, 84, 143; conservatism, 19, 117, 120; contrasts, 32; control, 19, 22, 34, 141, 146; economy, 80, 98; effects, 75, 96; factors, 59, 67, 142; immobility, 18, 20, 120, 144, 145; insurance, 105, 116, 125; legislation, 23, 100; memory, 23, 55; mind, 49, 70; order, 143; organization, 35, 59, 142; policy, 80, 139; pressure, 63, 77; psychology, 35; reorganization, 69; sensorium, 59; service, 80, 82, 84, 98, 117, 139, 143; specialists, 69, 81, 85, 94, 143; standards, 32; surplus, 68, 111, 112, 143

Social change, vide change

Socialization, 52, 55, 85, 97, 142, 145

Socialized recreation, 138, 139

Society, 33, 35, 49, 69, 70, 76, 79, 91, 100

Societies, 76, 99

Socio-economic factors, 112, 117, 143

Sociological factors, 59, 67, 142

Sociology, 33, 35, 120; attractions of study, 13; educational, 137; and psychology, 19, 35; virgin fields in, 13, 23

Sorrow, 45, 47

Standards, social, 32

Standards of living, 112, 113, 133

State, 101

Static conditions of society, vide immobility

Statistics, vital, 135

Stimulus, of catastrophe, 33, 51, 53, 54, 57; of heroism, 55; of leaders, 21; of lookers-on, 21, 78, 145; of models, 78; repetition of, 45

Struggle for existence, 41

Sub-normal, 136

Suggestibility, 41, 42, 48, 142

Suicide, 46

Supervised playgrounds, 136

Surplus, social, 68, 111, 112, 143

Survival, 56

Sustaining system of society, 31

Sympathy, 45, 46, 55, 58

T

Taboo, 49, 71

Tender emotion, 45

Themistes, 18

Topography, 67, 142

Tradition, 32, 120

Transportation, 43

Trade-unions, 51

U

Under-nutrition, 113

Unemployment, 59, 125

Unit in relief, 60

Unity, mental, 41

Utility, of association, 62, 67, 142

Utilities, public, 71

V

Variation, social, vide social change

Vicissitudes, 14, 21

Vigilance committee, 19, 143

Vigor, economic, 70

Vocational training, 98, 136

Volition, 55, 64

Voluntary associations, 73, 84

W

War, 14, 26, 45, 48, 94, 97, 101, 117, 144

Wealth, 111

Welfare, 70, 86, 132, 139

Will, 22, 44, 52, 53

Workmen's compensation, 105

Worship, 19, 77

Z

Zeal, 44