E. L. Quarantelli

University of Delaware

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Russell R. Dynes

National Influenza Center

Dennis E. Wenger

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Indiana University South Bend

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Radiation Disasters: Similarities To And Differences From Other Disasters

E. L. Quarantelli

First, we note that most researchers see disasters as being qualitatively as well as quantatively different from everyday accidents. In this framework therefore the preparations for and responses to radiation disaster occasions have to be different in important ways from those that can be used in routine radiation emergencies.

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Conceptualizing Disasters from a Sociological Perspective

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters (1989)

E. L. Quarantelli

The question of taxonomy for disaster research cannot be meaningfully addressed until some sort of answer is given to the more fundamental issue: what is a disaster? Kreps does provide one general answer in his paper. Regarding much of what he says, he clearly is right. The evidence for this conclusion comes from the fact hat many of his views correspond to mine—obviously there could be no stronger confirmation that he is correct in expressing those views! However, I do have some problems with certain of his positions. In this brief commentary, let me discuss four matters regarding which I would take a different position than that which seems to be taken by Kreps. However, what is important is not that we disagree, but rather that the differences lead in different direction in conceptualizing disasters and developing typologies or taxonomies. So these are difference which make difference.

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10.1177/028072708900700303

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Structural Factors In The Minimization Of Role Conflict: A Re-Examination Of The Significance Of Multiple Group Membership In Disaster

Russell R. Dynes E. L. Quarantelli

Structural Factors in the Ilinimization of Role Conflict : A Re-Examination of' the Significance of Multiple Group limbership in Disaster It is a standard sociological view that hman beingss play multiple roles. possibility that a person may simultaneously be called upon to manWest two conflicting or competing roles, of role conflict is established, SmpliciZ, in the idea of multi-role enactment is the

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Self-Conceptions and Others: A Further Test of Meadian Hypotheses

Sociological Quarterly (1966)

E. L. Quarantelli Joseph T. Cooper

IN THIS paper we attempt to do the following with respect to the symbolic interactionist approach to social psychological phenomena: (1) to add to its relatively meager empirical base; (2) to develop a neglected aspect of the position, namely, the time dimension; and (3 ) to contribute to both the replication and the extension of the limited systematic research which has used this particular framework to focus on the key concept of self. That the symbolic interactionist approach does not rest on a substantial body of empirical research has been noted by even such a sympathetic critic as Merton.1 Proponents of the approach have tended to substitute discursive illustrations for hypothesis testing especially when setting forth the ideas of George H. Mead, the major progenitor of the scheme. In fact, some of the major commentators on Mead have at times suggested that his prime contribution is an abstract frame of reference with which an observer can

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10.1111/j.1533-8525.1966.tb01694.x

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What Is A Disaster?: New Answers to Old Questions

Ronald W. Perry E. L. Quarantelli

What is a disaster?: new answers to old questions , What is a disaster?: new answers to old questions , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی

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Tape Recorded Research: Some Field and Data Processing Problems

Public Opinion Quarterly (1956)

Rue Bucher Charles E. Fritz E. L. Quarantelli

Tape recorders are being used with ever increasing frequency in the investigation of a wide variety of social scientific problems. Sociologists, public opinion specialists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, linguists, social and clinical psychologists, family counselors, and social workers have reported the use of electronic and mechanical recording devices in their work. In the past, however, the employment of recorders was confined primarily to the clinical or counseling situation; only recent years have witnesses a rapid expansion of their use in field research. In this article the authors describe some of the problems involved in using recorders in the field and make suggestions based on their four-year experiences in using the machines on the Disaster Project of the National Opinion Research Center.

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FIRST RESPONDERS AND THEIR INITIAL BEHAVIOR IN HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENTS

State of the art report (1986)

Jane Gray E. L. Quarantelli

In a recent 4-year study the Disaster Research Center (DRC) of the University of Delaware began the first large-scale social science study of sociobehavioral responses to acute chemical emergencies. In the first phase, DRC obtained systematic and comparative field data on local preparedness for chemical disasters in 19 communities in the United States. In the second phase, 26 field studies were undertaken of organizational and community responses to major accidents that resulted from toxic releases, explosions, spills, fires, or other sudden hazardous chemical emergencies. Field studies and analyses were conducted after 1981 to test and extend some of the earlier work. Observations and findings on first responders and their initial behavior in hazardous chemical transportation accidents are summarized in this paper. DRC found some major differences between responses that occur at fixed sites compared with acute chemical emergencies that occur while a vehicle is in transit; the latter type of emergency is more problematical than the former. The response of first responders to in-transit emergencies is characterized by significant uncertainty about the nature of the chemical hazard and a tendency to initially underestimate the severity of the chemical hazard. Difficulties and problems are compounded by a variety of different impact and situational contigencies that can significantly and adversely affect the initial response pattern. Even though the DRC findings are drawn only from studies in the United States, there are reasons to suspect that considerable cross-societal similarities might exist in the pattern of the behavior of first responders to acute chemical emergencies.

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Research Finding on Community and Organizational Preparations for and Responses to Acute Chemical Emergencies

Jane Gray E. L. Quarantelli

By almost any criteria the threat of sudden chemical disasters is on the increase. However, while the technical aspects of such incidents have been much studied, the social aspects of such situations have been largely ignored. To study this problem the Disaster Research Center recently concluded a four year study of community and organizational preparedness for and responses to actual and potential sudden disasters resulting from chemical agents. Field studies were conducted on preparedness planning in 19 communities around the United States; and additional 20 field studies were undertaken of responses in the emergency time period of incidents involving chemical explosions, fires, and spills. Using a sociological framework which is indicated relevant variables and factors, intensive interviews were obtained from over 400 respondents. In addition, considerable data were gathered from participant observing and document collecting. The data were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed, and a general theoretical model of preparedness and response was derived. In this paper the major findings about the sociobehavioral aspects of disaster preparedness for and of the organizational and community responses to chemical disasters are briefly summarized.

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A 100 item annotated bibliography on disaster and disaster planning

E. L. Quarantelli

Disaster planning

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Disaster Studies: An Historical Analysis of the Influences of Basic Sociology and Applied Use on the Resarch Done in the Last 35 Years

E. L. Quarantelli

We want to discuss disaster studies and their relationship to basic and applied sociological research. The relationship could be looked at from the viewpoint of what is ought to be, or it could be examined from the perspective of what it actually is. We have chosen to discuss what is really done, rather than, ideally, what ought to be done. In fact, since most of our remarks and examples are drawn from the past, from the first decade or so of disaster research in the United States, we shall be talking not so much of what is done at present, but more about what happened in the past. In other words, we will talk about the very early days of systematic disaster research in this country and try to indicate in what ways applied and basic questions influenced the work that was undertaken, in that sense focusing on the “was,” rather than the “should have been.”

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