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

• Autore: Vollmer Hendrik <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 303.4
• Soggetto topico: Social change; Disasters - Social aspects
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: The Sociology of Disruption, Disaster & Social Change
• Titolo autorizzato: The sociology of disruption, disaster and social change
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813125803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II