Social Organization Under Stress a Sociological Review of Disaster Studies
Social Organization Under Stress a Sociological Review of Disaster Studies
Allen H Barton
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Imitation is the foundation of custom. It became the thing to do. The thing to do is social pressure. It may be unwilled and unintended but it is inexorable. It worked effectively upon all who had an unused room (1920, p. 637). The general idea expressed in the studies is that in the first few hours of a disaster the response is based largely on individual emotional reactions of sympathy, but that as time and social interaction go on, social norms are created or focused which do not depend enti...rely on personal emotions but on a sense of moral obligation, or an awareness of the moral expectations of others. Some of the individual psychological mechanisms accounting for community-oriented behavior were presented in Chapter 2. There most of the variables were individual attitudes and beliefs, but two other kinds of individual variables played strategic parts: relational and contextual. The individual "who had social ties to victims, " and "who was linked to others in the informal communications network, " is being characterized relationally.
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