What is a disaster+
Collective Behavior+
Myths
Typologies
Role Improvisation
100

Disaster researchers try to get into the field asap to collect data that will be gone or contaminated over time, sometimes quite quickly. What is this data called?

What is perishable data?

100

This is when people collectively try to define a situation, propose and adopt new norms for behavior, & seek coordinated action to find a solution to their shared problem.

What is milling?

100

Is widespread looting common after most disasters (yes or no)?

What is "no"?

100

This kind of organization performs the same tasks and structures during a disaster as it does routinely.

What is an established organization?

100

This term describes whether the links between people are continuous or discontinuous compared to their pre-disaster links for their roles?

What is role relationships?

200

Suspension of due process or normal procedures is a characteristic associated with what? 

What is a disaster?

200

Collective behavior is when conventions cease to guide social action and people collectively do this. 

What is transcend, bypass, or subvert established institutional patterns and structures.  

200

What is meant by appropriating behavior, often confused with looting?

People taking necessary things, from their perspective, in that disaster environment

200

This kind of organization performs different tasks but has the same organizational structure during a disaster as it does routinely.

What is an extending organization?

200

A responding firefighter finds out their child was seriously hurt in an accident. Do they stay at the scene of the fire or rush to the hospital to be with their child? This is an example of role what?

What is role conflict?

300

Kreps notes 4 main properties of disaster, including forewarning. Name 1 of the others.

What is the magnitude, scope, or duration of the impact?

300

In CB, those who advance suggested interpretations of an event are doing this.

What is keynoting?

300

When is role abandonment by responders most likely in disasters?

When they don’t know if their family members are safe.

300

This kind of organization performs the same tasks but has a different organizational structure during a disaster than it does routinely.

What is an expanding organization? 

300

If a makeshift hospital is set up in a retail shop across the street because ambulances can’t get through to the area, the way care is provided will be different than in a hospital. Is is an example of role what?

What is role behavior or performance?

400

Most or all of the everyday community functions are sharply and concurrently interrupted is a characteristic associated with what? 

What is a catastrophe?

400

This is a theory of collective behavior that suggests people move to form a shared definition of the situation during relatively normless situations.

What is emergent norm theory?

400

Why are disasters not the great social equalizers?

People are disproportionately impacted by disasters, and this is related to routine vulnerabilities

400

This kind of organization performs different tasks and has different organizational structures during a disaster than it does routinely.

What is an emergent organization?

400

If a police officer is engaged in security patrol pre-disaster vs. shopkeepers maintaining a perimeter of a massive building fire, this describes a consistent or improvised role what?

What is role allocation?

500

This term describes using multiple methods or data sources to develop a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon.

What is triangulation?

500

This kind of social capital describes connections between acquaintances and individuals who span groups.

What is bridging capital?

500

When is panic, though rare, most likely in an emergency situation?

When a window of opportunity for escape is quickly closing

500

What kind of organization in the DRC typology is the American Red Cross when it includes surge capacity of volunteers during a disaster? 

What is an expanding organization?

500

This role term describes when there are competing demands within the same role.

What is role strain?

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