REVISITING KEY ISSUES ABOUT COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR, ORGANIZING, AND ROLE ENACTMENT

This article addresses the benefits of using a structural code and a role analysis framework for conducting organizational research in the context of a disaster. In the present article, I apply that code and framework to Thomas Forrest's earlier analysis of a organization, the Interfaith Emerge...

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Published in:	Sociological spectrum 2001-10, Vol.21 (4), p.479-506
Main Author:	Noon, James M.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Collective Behavior Detroit, Michigan Disasters Emergencies Organizational Behavior Organizational Structure Riots Roles
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Summary:	This article addresses the benefits of using a structural code and a role analysis framework for conducting organizational research in the context of a disaster. In the present article, I apply that code and framework to Thomas Forrest's earlier analysis of a organization, the Interfaith Emergency Center (IEC), that emerged during the Detroit civil disturbance of 1967. Kreps' structural code is applied to the same set of interviews and documents that constituted the database for Forrest's original case study (Disaster Research Center data archives). I first document the origins and restructuring of the IEC using the structural code. I then perform a role level analysis that builds on Bosworth and Kreps' three dimensional framework. That framework addresses the expectational, relational, and behavioral dimensions of role enactment. Revisiting Forrest's original study results in a more theoretically rich analysis of how and why the IEC emerged in the way that it did during the emergency period.
ISSN:	0273-2173 1521-0707