The role of archives for comparative studies of social structure and disaster.

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Wenger, Dennis E

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University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center

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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Article (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 206Publication details: 1989Description: 14pReport number: AcademicSubject: ArchivesSubject: Disaster researchSubject: Disaster research can be a meaningful contributor to concepts and theories within general sociology. The potential of archival data is significant. For those who like sociology to be structural and prefer that individuals and individual-level attributes not muddy one's structural analysis, then the data set of the Disaster Research Center may be a rich source of empirical information on social structure. It has long been assumed that natural disasters are settings for analyzing social structure under stress conditions. For those interested in structural emergence, alteration, and form, the potential output from examining this data base is excitingSubject: Social changeSubject: Social organization

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Excerpt from Gary Krep's (ed.) Social Structure and Disaster; Newark, DE; University of Delaware Press; 1989; pp238-250

Archives

Disaster research

Disaster research can be a meaningful contributor to concepts and theories within general sociology. The potential of archival data is significant. For those who like sociology to be structural and prefer that individuals and individual-level attributes not muddy one's structural analysis, then the data set of the Disaster Research Center may be a rich source of empirical information on social structure. It has long been assumed that natural disasters are settings for analyzing social structure under stress conditions. For those interested in structural emergence, alteration, and form, the potential output from examining this data base is exciting

Social change

Social organization

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