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

Shock reaction--Hallucination--Primitive instincts--Crowd psychology--Phenomena of emotion--How men react when bereft completely--Post-catastrophic phenomena--Human nature in th...

The unchanging Halifax of the years--The causes of social immobility--The new birthday--The indications of change: appearance, expansion of business, population, political actio...

We have already seen that there are certain determining factors in catastrophe and its social results. There is not only the level of the general capability and culture of the c...

Recapitulation--The various steps in the study presented in propositional form--The rôle of catastrophe direct and indirect. (a) Directly prepares the ground-work for change by:...

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 facto...

It is not necessary to repeat the fact, which the reader has already seen, that the process of complete social organization was largely expedited by the organization of relief,...

Halifax is the ocean terminal of the Dominion of Canada on her Atlantic seaboard. It is situated at the head of Chebucto Bay, a deep inlet on the southeastern shoreline of Nova...

We have seen something of the disintegration which followed what has been called the "stun of the explosion." It included the abrupt flight from, and the emptying of, all the ho...

We have thus far been tracing certain of the major influences which are brought to bear upon a community when, after having been overtaken by catastrophe, it is settling back in...

Mill's explanation of the rapidity with which communities recover from disaster--The case of San Francisco--The case of Halifax--Social surplus--The equipmental factors--Correla...

There should also be here recorded the timely succour afforded by the Imperial Government at Westminster. Following the King's gracious cable of sympathy, the sum of five millio...