Making sense of collective preoccupations : lessons from research on the Iben Browning earthquake prediction.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Article (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 270Publication details: 1994Description: [11] leavesSubject: This paper does four things: 1) discusses alternative characterizations of collective preoccupations in the literature; 2) outlines changes in the ways collective behavior scholars view these episodes; 3) presents data on a recent collective preoccupation, the public response to a non-scientific earthquake prediction, which occurred over a period of several months in 1990, in light of these trends; and 4) discusses the implications of this case for how sociologists ought to conceptualize and study collective preoccupations
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"Reprinted from Self, Collective Behavior and Society: Essays Honoring the Contributions of Ralph H. Turner, edited by Ferald M. Platt and Chad Gordon"
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This paper does four things: 1) discusses alternative characterizations of collective preoccupations in the literature; 2) outlines changes in the ways collective behavior scholars view these episodes; 3) presents data on a recent collective preoccupation, the public response to a non-scientific earthquake prediction, which occurred over a period of several months in 1990, in light of these trends; and 4) discusses the implications of this case for how sociologists ought to conceptualize and study collective preoccupations
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