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Chapter 2 - Social Network Analysis Focused on Individuals Facing Hazards and Disasters
Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation (2017)
  • A. J. Faas, San Jose State University
  • Eric C. Jones, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Abstract
This chapter reviews social network analysis's contribution to alternatively complementary or conflicting conclusions about human behavior and relationships in disaster. The social network is a seductive concept in the anthropology of disasters—a potentially robust tool for investigating complex human and human-environment entanglements. What are the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical trends—and potential opportunities and constraints—in social network analysis approaches to studying the behaviors, perceptions, and well-being of individuals in disaster contexts? In this integrative overview, we find generally promising topics to be: how various types of ties contribute to an individual's experience of disaster; what diversity and homophily do in response, recovery, and adaptation; why a constellation or spiderweb of relationships sometimes produces emergent properties; when network potential is translated into network activation; and how we can theoretically capture the unfolding of the disaster experience without making it an unrealistic set of stages.
Keywords
  • Disasters,
  • Exchange,
  • Social capital,
  • Social networks,
  • Social organization,
  • Social support
Publication Date
2017
Editor
Eric C. Jones and A.J. Faas
Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN
978-0-12-805196-2
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-12-805196-2.00002-9
Citation Information
A. J. Faas and Eric C. Jones. "Chapter 2 - Social Network Analysis Focused on Individuals Facing Hazards and Disasters" Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation (2017) p. 11 - 23
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aj_faas/37/