Sociology of Disasters

Russell R. Dynes, Bruna De Marchi, Carlo Pelanda

Sociology of Disasters

Contribution of Sociology to Disasters Research

Printed Edition

64.50

Pages: 460

ISBN: 9788820422677

Edition: 1a edizione 1987

Publisher code: 905.11

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For those who only read book titles, this book would seem to stake a claim to consider "disaster" as a sociological specially or, perhaps, for claiming <

There is a tradition of research in sociology which focuses on disasters which has used, in large part, standard sociological concepts to deal with a particular range of phenomena termed disaster. Those who work in that research tradition consider their effort as being within the larger sociological enterprise. In fact, for those who study disaster, it is the quintessential social event, not an atmospheric or geological aberration.

The book aims at assessing the contribution of sociology to the study of disasters and mass emergencies as a starting point for the widening of a debate in a field that, up to now, has been scarcely cross-culturally integrated and pursued predominantly by American scholars. The volume is appearing with the support of the Research Committee on Disasters of the International Sociological Association and is hopefully the first one in a series which aims at becoming a forum for international debate.

- Forward - Enrico L. QUARANTELLI
- Preface - Bruna DE MARCHI and Carlo PELANDA
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
Russell R. DYNES
- Toward a Reconceptualization of Disaster for the Enhancement of Social Preparation
Neil R. BRITTON
- Sociological Methods and Disaster Research
Dennis S. MILETI
- The Concept of Role in Disaster Research
Russell R. DYNES
- Communication and Behavior. Organizational and Individual Response to Warnings
Joanne M. NIGG
- A Sociosystemic Model of Information Management in Mass Emergencies
Bruna DE MARCHI and Daniele UNGARO
- Disaster Preparedness and Response among Minority Citizens
Ronald W. PERRY
- Disaster and Urban Community
Ritsuo AKIMOTO
- Human Ecology: Contributions to Research and Policy Formation
Charles E. FAUPEL
- Collective Behavior and Disaster Research
Dennis E. WENGER
- Organizational Change and the Sociology of Disaster
Robert A. STALLINGS
- Emergent Structures
Thorrias E. DRABEK
- Disasters and Social Change
Frederick L. BATES and Walter G. PEACOCK
- Critical Theory in Sociological Disaster Research
Wolf R. DOMBROWSKY
- Classical Themes, Structural Sociology, and Disaster Research
Gary A. KREPS
- A Concluding Commentary
Enrico L. QUARANTELLI
- References
- Contributors


Contributors:

Serie: Isig - Istituto di sociologia internazionale Gorizia

Subjects: Sociology of Environment, Territory, Tourism - Sociology of Political Phenomena

Level: Scholarly Research

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