TY - JOUR
T1 - Social extremity, communities of fate, and the sociology of SARS
AU - BAEHR, William Peter
PY - 2005/8/1
Y1 - 2005/8/1
N2 - This article identifies the chief factors which transform a group of people into a “community of fate”. A community of fate refers to a temporary form of existence, born of duress and social emergency, which cuts across familiar divisions to elicit something socially consequential. One such community materialized during the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Hong Kong. It is examined here in detail together with a range of other crisis communities – from Montreal battling smallpox, to the captives of the Warsaw Ghetto.
AB - This article identifies the chief factors which transform a group of people into a “community of fate”. A community of fate refers to a temporary form of existence, born of duress and social emergency, which cuts across familiar divisions to elicit something socially consequential. One such community materialized during the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Hong Kong. It is examined here in detail together with a range of other crisis communities – from Montreal battling smallpox, to the captives of the Warsaw Ghetto.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/154
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=31344449796&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S000397560500007X
DO - 10.1017/S000397560500007X
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0003-9756
VL - 46
SP - 179
EP - 211
JO - European Journal of Sociology
JF - European Journal of Sociology
IS - 2
ER -