Disaster, organizing, and role enactment : a structural approach.
Material type: TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: SEP 1993Description: 36 pReport number: CommercialSubject: Descriptions of organizing and role enactment during the emergency periods of disasters are developed from archival materials on 257 key participants in 106 organized responses. Organizing is measured as a continuum of formal organizing to collective behavior. Three unique dimensions of role enactment are isolated empirically: status-role nexus, role links, and role performance. The three dimensions are modeled in terms of the structural form and type of organizing within which role enactment occurs as well as a series of other structural and individual correlates. Findings from the modeling codify the disaster research legacy as it contributes to sociological theorySubject: Emergency managementItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Bibliography: p. 461-463
Reprinted from American Journal of Sociology; 1993; Vol. 99; No. 2; p. 428-463
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Descriptions of organizing and role enactment during the emergency periods of disasters are developed from archival materials on 257 key participants in 106 organized responses. Organizing is measured as a continuum of formal organizing to collective behavior. Three unique dimensions of role enactment are isolated empirically: status-role nexus, role links, and role performance. The three dimensions are modeled in terms of the structural form and type of organizing within which role enactment occurs as well as a series of other structural and individual correlates. Findings from the modeling codify the disaster research legacy as it contributes to sociological theory
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