Societal Crisis

A Societal Crisis is a crisis in some societal system.

• Example(s):
  • a Political Crisis, such as a civil war.
  • an Economic Crisis, such as a bank run.
  • a Judicial Crisis.
  • a Policing Crisis.
  • a Crisis of White Masculinity.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Deliberate Societal Change.
  • a Household Crisis.
• See: System Breakdown.

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References

~1930

• Antonio Gramsci. (~1930). “Quaderni del carcere, «Ondata di materialismo» e «crisi di autorità»", volume I, quaderno 3, p. 311
  • QUOTE: ... La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.
    ("The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.")

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