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Response to Social Crisis and Disaster

Response to Social Crisis and Disaster Three decades ago, there was not enough theoretical material or research work on response to social crisis and disaster to have warranted writing more than a footnote attesting to that fact. A paragraph could have summarized all the relevant work and activity of two decades ago. Even ten years ago, several pages might have sufficed to summarize totally the burgeoning activities in the area. The growth of the area has been exponential, not linear, and today the research efforts and theoretical advances have reached such a level as to force us to be highly selective in our coverage in this paper. The very concept of crisis has been reformulated and refined into and under a more generic category, collective stress situation. Barton (1 970:38) defines such a situation as one where ". . . many members of a social system fail to receive expected conditions of life from the system." In tum, the notion of consensus and dissensus types of crisis has been advanced and fruitfully applied in research efforts (Warheit 1968, Waxman 1973a). Dissensus types of crises are conflict-containing situations where there are sharply contrasting views of the nature of the situation, what brought it about, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Sociology Annual Reviews

Response to Social Crisis and Disaster

Quarantelli, E L; Dynes, R R
Annual Review of Sociology , Volume 3 (1) – Aug 1, 1977
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Annual Reviews
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Copyright 1977 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
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ISSN
0360-0572
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1545-2115
DOI
10.1146/annurev.so.03.080177.000323
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Abstract

Three decades ago, there was not enough theoretical material or research work on response to social crisis and disaster to have warranted writing more than a footnote attesting to that fact. A paragraph could have summarized all the relevant work and activity of two decades ago. Even ten years ago, several pages might have sufficed to summarize totally the burgeoning activities in the area. The growth of the area has been exponential, not linear, and today the research efforts and theoretical advances have reached such a level as to force us to be highly selective in our coverage in this paper. The very concept of crisis has been reformulated and refined into and under a more generic category, collective stress situation. Barton (1 970:38) defines such a situation as one where ". . . many members of a social system fail to receive expected conditions of life from the system." In tum, the notion of consensus and dissensus types of crisis has been advanced and fruitfully applied in research efforts (Warheit 1968, Waxman 1973a). Dissensus types of crises are conflict-containing situations where there are sharply contrasting views of the nature of the situation, what brought it about, and

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Annual Review of Sociology – Annual Reviews

Published: Aug 1, 1977

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