State of Social Upheaval

A State of Social Upheaval is a societal state that is a chaotic state.

• Context:
  • It can be System Failure-based Social Upheaval such as a Unemployment-based.
  • It can range from being an Social Upheaval from an External Stressor to being a Social Upheaval from an Internal Stressor.
• Example(s):
  • Rwandan Tutsi Genocide (1994).
  • die Endlösung der Judenfrage (193?-1945).
  • Depression of the 1930s.
  • U.S. Civil War (1861-1865).
  • French Revolution (1789–1799).
  • Spanish Inquisition (1478-????).
  • Peloponnesian War.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Pax Romana (~25BC–~180AD)
• See: Disruption, Innovation, Social Revolution.

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References

1969

• (Langer, 1969) ⇒ William Leonard Langer. (1969). “Political and Social Upheaval, 1832-1852. Vol. 14." Harper & Row.

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