The Sociology of Disaster by Thomas E. Drabek

Author:Thomas E. Drabek [Drabek, Thomas E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367253066
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 For an accounting of the Butte mine disaster, see Punke 2006. Aside from his detailed chronology of events, Punke provides information and interpretations of these and many other topics: 1) funeral and other widow benefit payments; 2) impact of the 1918 flu epidemic; 3) ethnic diversity among miners; 4) labor-management conflicts; 5) the Berkeley Pit, both construction of and hazardous quality. His discussion of Madge Duggan could be used as a contrast to the responses of Mae Pelanda (see 221–224). In short, Madge dealt with her husband’s death in the mine by pushing herself to become a political activist, being elected to the Office of Public Administrator for two terms and then, after improving her business skills, a bookkeeper for two large firms. As a thirteen-year-old who was living in Boise, Idaho, James Brock (1995) remembered the Sunshine Mine disaster years later. He stated that his objective “wasn’t to write poetry or history. Quite simply, something had disturbed me, something very much like the dead who occasionally bother to speak to us, something I had to answer to” (1).

2 Stieg Larsson (2008; 2009; 2011). After his death, David Lagercrantz (2015) received permission from Stieg’s family to complete a manuscript that was in process when he died. Using the same set of characters from the three volume “millennium series”—Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, and many others. Two years later, Lagercrantz (2017) followed with a second novel featuring Lisbeth Salander. Since the feature film focused on “Wonder Woman” has been released, several popular analyses have been published of the 75-year evolution from 1941 when a “parent-friendly” comic book by William Moulton Marston first appeared. Student essays could be assigned regarding these analyses and/or in-class oral reports following discussion group activity, e.g., see Eliana Dockterman, “Wonder Woman Breaks Through,” Time, December 26, 2016–January 2, 2017, 99–105.

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