Social impact of Disasters

Disasters bring disruption in the normal social life, create chaos, tear down social structure and destroy social order, so understanding social impact may be viewed as the study of 'social pathology'

(Dynes et al 1978)

"Disasters provide a realistic laboratory for testing the integration, stamina, and recuperative of a large scale social systems. They provide the social scientists with advantages that cannot be matched in the human behaviour in a more normal or stable conditions"

(Frtiz-1961)