The Titanic is the worlds most famous, and infamous maritime disasters every to occur. She was 'The ship of dreams'. An 'unsinkable' safe have for the passengers and crew on-board. In hindsight, we now know how wrong that statement is, and was.
The statement can teach us that humans, and things that humans create, are vulnerable to the elements, mother nature. But, that is not all Titanic teaches us. There are some serious, and important lessons that Titanic can teach us. Historical lessons, sociological lessons, and the lessons of human psychology.
The three lessons that we can learn from the Titanic are all connected. The humanities subject usually overlap, and this is the case with the Titanic. The history, sociology, and psychology of the Titanic disaster all overlap.
Since we are more familiar with Titanic's history, let us look at the other two. Let us look at the sociology and psychology of the Titanic disaster. Sociology
The sociological aspects of the Titanic are extremely blatant. The sociology of the Titanic comes in the form of social stratification. Social stratification means arranging people into different classes based on their wealth, and social status.
The social class of those on board the Titanic, determined whether those on board would live, or die. The chat below is based on those passengers who lost their lives. As you can see, most who lost their lives where third class passengers.
Over half of those who died on Titanic, were from third class. This was partly because around half of Titanic's passengers were from third class. But, it also shows us something it. It shows us that survival was depended upon the class that a person belonged too.
Psychology
The psychology of the Titanic disaster is also interesting. It is interesting for two reason. The first reason is is that it teaches us lessons about how people behave when society breaks down. It also teaches us lessons upon the bystander effect.
Many political, and philosophical minds have argued that we need a structured society, in order for society to run smoothly, and for us not to turn against each other. The most notable people who argued that we need a social contract in order to survive, and keep the peace, are; Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Rousseau. It could be suggest that the Titanic supports their theory of the social contract. The ''women and children first'' approach by Captain Smith and his crew, was a notable act. And, the statistics show that it was mainly women and children which survived the Titanic disaster. However, there are reports that men who tried to get into lifeboats were threatened with violence, and that gun shots were heard. These gun shots were fired into the air. It was reported at the official inquest into the Titanic disaster. The bystander effect largely comes from the SS Californian ship. The Californian was only 19 miles away, and, if it respond, everyone who was not locked in one of the boilers which were locked down, could have been saved. Likely, for those who were in the locked compartments, were the ship was breached, were beyond help. But, had the Californian responded, most for the people on-board the Titanic would have been saved. The Californian seen Titanic's distress calls, but thought that they ''were further away'', even if the Titanic was further away, the distress rockets which the Titanic fired should have been enough for the crew of the Californian to act, but they didn't. That is another debate.
These are just some of the lessons that we can learn from the Titanic. But, they are not all of the lessons that we can, and should learn from Titanic, such as the incompetence of the crew ignoring iceberg warnings.
But, Titanic can teach us a lot about humans nature.
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