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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813125803321

Autore

Vollmer Hendrik <1972->

Titolo

The sociology of disruption, disaster and social change : punctuated cooperation / / Hendrik Vollmer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-35794-2

1-107-23798-X

1-107-34207-4

1-107-34928-1

1-107-34832-3

1-139-42462-9

1-107-34582-0

1-299-40342-5

1-107-34457-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Social change

Disasters - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Confronting disruptions: the nexus of social situations; 1.1 Events and experts; 1.2 Social scientists facing disruptions; 1.3 Crises and catastrophes; 1.4 Punctuated equilibrium; 1.5 Rules and exceptions; 1.6 Tracing trauma; 1.7 The nexus of social situations; 1.8 Framing disruptions; 1.9 Conclusion; 2 Framing situations, responding to disruptions; 2.1 The framing concept; 2.2 Participants; 2.3 Disruptions; 2.4 Responses; 2.5 Keys; Signs; Symbols; Resources; 2.6 Practical sense and punctuated cooperation

2.7 Framing, strategies and fields2.8 Conclusion; 3 The social order of punctuated cooperation; 3.1 Containing participants; 3.2 Involvement in punctuated cooperation; Engrossment; Rekeying; Practical sense and private deliberations; Emergent context; Transcendence; 3.3 Endogeneity and selectivity; 3.4 Normalizing disruptions; 3.5 Towards



change in strategies and fields; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 Organizational stress, failure and succession; 4.1 Formally organized cooperation; Formal expectations; Keys; Upkeying and downkeying; 4.2 Upkeying and downkeying organizational stress

Organizational stress and emergent orderThreat-rigidity effects; Rekeying punctuated cooperation; 4.3 'Nothing succeeds like succession'; Socializing newcomers; Enter: the successor; Elementary contingencies; Keys and coalitions; The struggle for social capital; 4.4 Framing organizational failure; 4.5 The high-reliability challenge; 4.6 Conspicuous associations; 4.7 Implications for organizational theory; 4.8 Conclusion; 5 Violence and warfare; 5.1 Violent engagements; 5.2 The cohesion and disintegration of military units; 5.3 Hitler's army; 5.4 The multiple normalizations of warfare

5.5 Redistribution, domination and contentionTotalizing warfare; Resistance and revolution; Contingent dynamics of centralization; 5.6 Associating and stratifying across situations; 5.7 Conclusion; 6 Elaborating the theory; 6.1 Tracing disruptiveness; 6.2 Theorizing change in strategies; 6.3 Successful strategies; 6.4 Punctuated equilibrium and the successes of succession; 6.5 Assembling empirical records; 6.6 Framing the relational; 6.7 Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the wake of disruption and disaster, cooperation among members of a collective is refocused on matters of status, membership and the formation of coalitions. In an important contribution to sociological theory, Hendrik Vollmer emphasizes the processes through which disruptions not only affect, but also transform social order. Drawing on Erving Goffman's understanding of framing and the interaction order, as well as from a range of insights from contemporary sociological theory and ethnographic, historical and organizational research, Vollmer addresses the dynamics of disaster and disaster response within the framework of a general theory of disruption and social order. It is proposed that the adjustment of cooperation in favour of coalition-forming strategies is robust in both informal and organized social settings and transcends the 'micro' and 'macro' approaches currently favoured by theorists. Offering a systematic sociological analysis of the impact of disruptiveness, this book investigates how punctuated cooperation precipitates social change.