SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Tabula Rasa, Making Money

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1801
• Professor: Denielle Elliott

Document Summary

So what happened -> poverty, unemployment, crime, with the intensification of drug trades, and increasing economic decline happening in these neighbourhoods and this is all before hurricane katrina. During mandatory evacuation not everyone evacuated -> getting out the city was a difficult past without transportation, older residents had mobility issues (this (cid:449)asn"t (cid:272)onsidered(cid:895) Affect economy - the ethical and emotional demands that prompt people to intervene and help after a catastrophe has provided a new set of opportunities by which profit can be generated. Faith-based groups and humanitarian organizations fill the gaps left by government with free labour to aid recovery. However, they frequently work in concert with for-profit business and govenment. How big businesses capitalize on disasters -> making money (psychiatry) shock is intended to use to erase past behaviours that are considered undesirable from the patient -> ta(cid:271)ula rasa (cid:862)(cid:271)lank slate(cid:863) Economic shock could provide the kind of stimulant that are needed to rebuild from the hurricane.