The role of archives for comparative studies of social structure and disaster.
Material type: 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 organizationItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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