'Errare humanum est', but Sometimes Costs are Extremely High The Biggest Constructional Catastrophe in Polish History: The Collapsed Building in Chorzów-Katowice

• Authors: Chmielewski P.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper approaches the biggest constructional catastrophe in Polish history. Article focuses on conditions and causes of crises. Conditions refer to: biophysical factors, natural and technical ones, different institutional rules acting in variable spheres of life, as well as various characteristics of community. All of them create context of actions of human beings. Those conditions combined with intentional, rationally bounded and opportunistic individual, transform into causes of social events (positive and negative). Catastrophe in Chorzów-Katowice was a result of all of those elements mentioned above. New institutional approach used in this paper seems to be the most productive to explain and understand different social crises.

Keywords

EN

CONSTRUCTIONAL CATASTROPHE (POLAND); CRISES MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 3(159)
• Pages: 321-339
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chmielewski P.

• P. Chmielewski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Karowa 18, 00-324 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03947824