Terms
This term refers to steps that can be taken before a disaster to reduce impacts.
What is mitigation?
Police securing an area after a disaster is an example of this type of organization, according to the DRC Typology.
What is an established organization?
This is an appropriately designated committee that reviews and approves/disapproves research involving human subjects.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
This is when there are competing demands within the same role.
What is role strain?
This process is central to defining a crisis.
What is social construction?
A document that is not generally about the 'real' causes and solutions to disasters, but rather generated to prove that some authoritative actor has 'done something’ about a disaster.
What is a fantasy document?
A theatre company making masks during COVID-19 is an example of this kind of organization.
What is an extending organization?
The leading group of social scientists who researched disasters in the 1950s.
What is the National Opinion Research Center?
This is when two or more roles make incompatible demands on a person.
What is role conflict?
This model is better to use when events are unexpected, largely dispersed, and involve unfamiliar actors involved in non-routine tasks.
What is the Emergency Human Resources Model (EHRM)?
This term refers to using multiple methods or data sources to develop a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon.
What is triangulation?
"People coming to the area to help in unexpected ways may go home and not be able to be identified/located" is an example of this kind of data.
What is perishable data?
This is a centralized site for coordination of planning and response decision-making.
What is an emergency operations center?
This term describes whether disaster roles are consistent with pre-disaster roles (who does what).
What is role allocation?
This system is better used when something bad happens that involves a concentrated and familiar set of actors working in familiar areas of expertise.
What is the Incident Command System?
This is a communication process where individuals collectively try to define a situation, propose and adopt new norms of behavior, and seek a coordinated action to find a solution.
What is milling?
In this example of a term, fire alarm goes off in class, everyone is looking around at each other, and then suddenly a student gets up and says “I’m getting out of here” and leaves.
What is keynoting?
One of three people who founded the Disaster Research Center at Ohio State in 1963. [ONLY NEEDS TO GET ONE CORRECT FOR POINTS]
Who are Quarantelli, Dynes, and Haas?
This term describes the way the role is actually acted out and whether it is similar or different from the pre-disaster context.
What is role behavior (or performance)?
Most or all of the communities built structure is heavily impacted in this event.
What is a catastrophe?
This term describes social behavior where conventions cease to guide social action and people collectively transcend, bypass, or subvert established institutional patterns and structures.
What is collective behavior?
People being deprived of support like food for long periods of time, then taking what does not belong to them to survive is an example of this kind of behavior.
What is appropriating behavior?
One of the three characteristics of a crisis. [ONLY NEEDS TO GET ONE CORRECT FOR POINTS]
What is a threat, relatively unexpected, and an urgency to act?
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?
More organizations coming together that are unfamiliar with each other happens in this kind of event.
What is a disaster?