Items related to Community Reconstruction After an Earthquake: Dialectical...

Community Reconstruction After an Earthquake: Dialectical Sociology in Action - Hardcover

Ino Rossi

 
9780275946029: Community Reconstruction After an Earthquake: Dialectical Sociology in Action
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0275946029 ISBN 13: 9780275946029
Publisher: Praeger (UK), 1993

Synopsis

Rossi develops a theory of the roles of action (social actor) and structure (sociopolitical resources, cultural resources, and economic resources) in disaster studies, using the data on community reconstruction after the 1980 earthquake in Southern Italy as a preliminary test of the theory. The focus of the study is not the response during the emergency period which immediately followed the earthquake, but the long-term recovery and reconstruction of the 44 communities which were officially classified as the most heavily damaged. Aspects of the post-earthquake industrialization of the region are also considered, since the physical reconstruction of the destroyed communities is inevitably connected with their socioeconomic development. Rossi outlines and tests a new framework which permits prediction of the different speeds of community reconstruction, and provides a dialectic theory of the interrelationship between structural and action principles of social action.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

INO ROSSI is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at St. John's University./ He is the author or editor of several books, including Anthropology Full Circle (Praeger, 1987), People in Culture (Praeger, 1980), The Logic of Culture (Bergin & Garvey, 1982).

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Praeger (UK)
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0275946029
ISBN 13 
9780275946029
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
208