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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2013
      18 April 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139424622
      9781107032149
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139424622
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 290 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Political Sociology, Sociology
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    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.

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    ‘This is sociological theory at its best: insightful, rigorous and readable. Vollmer does not merely draw our attention to the importance of disruption and repair, demonstrating that rules are constituted by exceptions, and not the other way around, but teases out regularities in the processes by which social order emerges and then is realized to have disappeared. Required reading.’

    John Levi Martin - University of Chicago, and author of The Explanation of Social Action

    ‘A highly original approach to the often unnoticed 'bottom-up' mechanisms of social change. The range of applications includes organizational stress, disasters and warfare.'

    Uwe Schimank - University of Bremen

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