SOCL 2001 Lecture : Sociology 2001 Notes
Document Summary
Important sociological concepts: status, function, accounts (stories, recruitment and networks, social structure, evaluation (judgment) Evaluation: persuasive process of evaluation/judgment/rating/assignment of posing labels, social construction, when to suspend judgment, response to judgment tells us much about the social process involved, disputes reveal social construction (the how of the process) People and places: evacuation decisions, risk communication, the role of the government. I argue that the hurricane experience is special ( sacred ) in the same way: sacred-time set apart from everyday life. Macro and micro risk communication: storm surge estimates, where to live, how to guard your home, whether to evacuate for this storm, weak, strong. Mandatory evacuation: fha: authorities put maximum emphasis on encouraging. Evacuation & limiting ingress : fema: warning that imminent threat. Judgment : of things (technology works/doesn"t work properly, of organizations (lsu/army corps of engineers, of future events (hurricanes, of people (giving grades/hiring/raises) Principle of supersedure: the last big storm.
