History
This leading group of social scientists at the University of Chicago researched disasters in the 1950s.
What is the National Opinion Research Center?
This is the year DRC was founded.
What is 1963?
Which property is missing from Kreps' disaster properties: magnitude, scope, and duration of the impact.
What is the length of forwarning?
This term is when conventions cease to guide social action and people collectively transcend, bypass, or subvert established institutional patterns and structures.
What is collective behavior?
Widespread role abandonment by responders is either likely or rare in disasters.
What is rare?
This approach is not focused on specific hazards but is focused on disaster risk reduction that is helpful across hazards.
What is the all-hazards approach?
This is the university at which DRC was founded.
What is The Ohio State University?
Carr saw disasters as negative, agent-caused, and what else?
What is rooted in social change?
A communication process where people collectively try to define a situation, propose and adopt new norms for behavior, and seek coordinated action to find a solution to their shared problem at hand.
What is milling?
This is when role abandonment sometimes occurs in disasters.
What is "when they don't know if their family is safe"?
Samuel H. Prince’s dissertation on the Halifax explosion is notable for this.
What is the first systematic study of disaster social science?
What is 1985?
The social vulnerability approach sees the cause of disasters rooted in what?
What is the social structure?
This is when people advance suggested interpretations of an event.
What is keynoting?
This concerns the commonly shared norms about how a person should behave in a particular role.
What are role expectations?
This is one of the ways the Chicago School influenced disaster research.
What is a focus on urban ethnography OR symbolic interaction and collective behavior?
Who is either Quarantelli, Dynes, or Haas?
This is one of the two aspects emphasized by the classic approach to studying disasters.
What is social disruption OR emergence?
This is when an organizations take on new tasks and structures compared to pre-disaster approaches.
What is an emergent organization?
This concerns whether disaster roles are consistent or inconsistent with pre-disaster roles.
What is role allocation?
The Disaster Research Group is known for this.
What is conducting a comprehensive review of the state of disaster research?
DRC pioneered approaches to collect this kind of data that will be gone or contaminated quite quickly after a disaster.
What is perishable data?
This process is central to defining something as a crisis.
What is social construction?
This DRC Typology term applies when the American Red Cross integrates new volunteers after a hurricane.
What is an expanding organization?
This term concerns if firefighters and police work together to maintain a perimeter of a massive building fire vs shopkeepers working with the firefighters.
What is role relationships?