Disaster and the sequence-pattern concept of social change.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1932Description: 12pSubject(s): Subject: Social change is much broader than cultural change and includes also populational changes, relational changes, and catastrophic changes. Study of catastrophic changes support the hypothesis that all social change tends to follow a definite sequence-pattern. Other research problems include the search for possible analogues of cultural lag in relational and populational changes and for techniques for identifying the precipitating event to facilitate the study of contemporary social processes.
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Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 303.485 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 005277638 |
Reprinted from The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 38., 1932, pp207-218
Social change is much broader than cultural change and includes also populational changes, relational changes, and catastrophic changes. Study of catastrophic changes support the hypothesis that all social change tends to follow a definite sequence-pattern. Other research problems include the search for possible analogues of cultural lag in relational and populational changes and for techniques for identifying the precipitating event to facilitate the study of contemporary social processes.
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