Disaster studies: an analysis of the social historical factors affecting the development of research in the area.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Article (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 195BPublication details: NOV 1987Description: 26p., 47 refsReport number: AcademicSubject: Disaster behaviorSubject: Disaster psychologySubject: Disaster researchSubject: Disaster sociologySubject: Provides a description and a sociology of scientific knowledge analysis of the factors affecting the initiation of studies in the area of social and behavioral research on disasters in the United States. First, it is noted how disaster research on gruop and behavioral aspects of disasters had their roots, almost exclusively, in rather narrowly focused applied questions or political concerns. It is then pointed out how this led to certain kinds of selective emphasis in terms of what and how the research was undertaken in the pioneering days, but with substantiative consequences which are still operative todaySubject: Social psychology
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Reprinted from International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters; November 1987; Vol 5 No 3; pp285-310. The article is primarily drawn from a manuscript prepared for the of Social Structure and Disaster: Conception and Measurement held at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; May 16 1986
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Disaster behavior
Disaster psychology
Disaster research
Disaster sociology
Provides a description and a sociology of scientific knowledge analysis of the factors affecting the initiation of studies in the area of social and behavioral research on disasters in the United States. First, it is noted how disaster research on gruop and behavioral aspects of disasters had their roots, almost exclusively, in rather narrowly focused applied questions or political concerns. It is then pointed out how this led to certain kinds of selective emphasis in terms of what and how the research was undertaken in the pioneering days, but with substantiative consequences which are still operative today
Social psychology
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