- Author
- Wenger, D. E.
- Title
- Collective Behavior and Disaster Research.
- Book or Conf
- Sociology of Disasters: Contribution of Sociology to Disaster Research, Franco Angeli Libris s.r.l., Milano, Italy, Dynes, R. R.; DeMarchi, B.; Pelanda, C., Editors, 213-237 p., 1987
- Keywords
- disasters | sociology | emergencies | humna behavior | stress (psychology) | evacuation | communication networks | management systems
- Identifiers
- field of collective behavior; disaster research of the 1950's; collective behavior models of the 1960's and 1970's; disaster research of the 1960's and 1970' s; mass behavior phenomena; panic flight; convergence behavior; communication in collective behavior incidents: rumor and warning; nature of crises: crisis management mechanisms and blame; crowd processes: altruism, emergence and looting; attemps to conceptually link collective behavior theory, disaster research, and organizational analysis; issues in collective behavior and their relationship to disaster research