Disasters, collective behavior, and social organization
By: edited by Russell R. Dynes snd Kathleen J. Tierney.
Contributors: Dynes, Russell Rowe, 1923-; Tierney, Kathleen J.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses; UNKNO
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Newark; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Disaster relief -- Social aspects.; Disasters -- Research.; Emergency management -- Research.; Disaster victims -- Psychology.; Collective behavior.
Description: Human action is guided by social structure, but there are also many situations in which behavior is improvised, emergent, and outside conventional normative constraints. This book focuses on these types of occasions, which include panics, crowds, social movements, and organized behavior following disasters. Social scientists in the fields of collective behavior, social movements, and disaster research study these topics. E. L.

Quarantelli, cofounder and longtime director of the Disaster Research Center (DRC), is one of those scholars; indeed, he has devoted his career to understanding them. Quarantelli's impact on the fields of disaster research and collective behavior is traced in the foreword to this volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-363) and index.