David M Neal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1405626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Neal |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Neal |
| SIGNATURE | NEAL D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction to Emergency Management
Emergency management university programs have experienced dramatic and exponential growth over the last twelve years. This new, fully updated edition introduces majors and minors to the field and provides content accessible to those students taking introductory emergency management courses. The book’s student-centered focus looks at the regional, state, and local level response, as well as some of the often misunderstood or overlooked social aspe…
The Survivability of Swedish Emergency Management Related Research Centers and Academic Programs
The Survivability of Swedish Emergency Management Related Research Centers and Academic Programs: A Preliminary Sociology of Science AnalysisDespite being a relatively safe nation, Sweden has four different universities supporting four emergency management research centers and an equal and growing number of academic programs. In this paper, I discuss how these centers and programs survive within the current organizational environment. The sociolo…
Introduction to Emergency Management
Emergency management university programs have experienced dramatic and exponential growth over the last twelve years. This new, fully updated edition introduces majors and minors to the field and provides content accessible to those students taking introductory emergency management courses. The book‘s strength is in looking at the regional, state
Reconsidering the Phases of Disaster
The use of disaster phases (e.g., preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation) has assisted both disaster researchers and managers. Disaster researchers have used disaster phases to systematize and codify research results. Disaster managers have drawn upon disaster periods to organize their own activities. Yet, many problems exist with the current use of disaster periods. In summary, I find that the current uses of disaster periods lack conc…
Effective Emergency Management
The command and control approach is compared with the Emergent Human Resources Model (EHRM) approach to emergency management. Four decades of systematic research shows that a rigid, bureaucratic command and control approach to emergency management generally leads to an ineffective emergency response. Previous studies and our own research suggest that flexible, malleable, loosely coupled, organizational configurations can create a more effective d…
A Further Examination of Anonymity, Contagion, and Deindividuation in Crowd and Collective Behavior
A recent wave of research promotes the idea that anonymity or deindividuation precipitates collective behavior. Specifically, anonymous individuals are more likely to participate in collective behavior events than people among friends and acquaintances. To reconsider this recent resurgence of a more contemporary contagion theory, we replicate and expand upon Aveni's (1977) study of crowd behavior. Our survey data of crowd and collective behavior …
An Examination of Emergent Norms and Emergent Social Structures in Collective Behavior Situations
Although the emergent norm, emergent social structure perspective has been lauded for studying collective behavior, the perspective has not been put to empirical use. In this paper, we use the emergent norm, emergent social structure perspective to describe and analyze collective behavior incidents. These incidents were precipitated by traveling evangelical preachers at a large midwestern university. Data were gathered for this study through syst…
Patterns of Giving and Receiving Help During Severe Winter Conditions
Severe winter conditions and blizzards may cause persons to be stranded, unable to move from one place to another. Being stranded under such conditions can be life-threatening and often requires help. This is a study of giving and receiving help among people who were stranded during severe winter conditions and blizzards in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA and the surrounding countryside in 1976-1977. Mail questionnaire data were collected from the Bowli…
The Interrupted System
According to all accepted criteria, Israel has developed a refined universe of social science research, yet the sociology of war, in a society whose brief history is described by rounds of war, is utterly lacking. Baruch Kimmerling's monumental work is an effort to correct this glaring omission. He does so by calling upon the best in survey research along with a deep reexamination of the classical social science literature on conflict and consens…
Getting Ready for Blizzards
Preparation for blizzard conditions by respondents in Wood County, Ohio, in 1977–1978 was higher than expected; a majority of those who received warnings responded with further preparation, but planned little more preparation for the winter of 1978–1979. The best predictors of preparation were: place of residence, age, marital status, sex, and occupation. Variables best predicting plans to prepare for the approaching winter were: maintenance expe…
Effective Emergency Management
The command and control approach is compared with the Emergent Human Resources Model (EHRM) approach to emergency management. Four decades of systematic research shows that a rigid, bureaucratic command and control approach to emergency management generally leads to an ineffective emergency response. Previous studies and our own research suggest that flexible, malleable, loosely coupled, organizational configurations can create a more effective d…
A Further Examination of Anonymity, Contagion, and Deindividuation in Crowd and Collective Behavior
A recent wave of research promotes the idea that anonymity or deindividuation precipitates collective behavior. Specifically, anonymous individuals are more likely to participate in collective behavior events than people among friends and acquaintances. To reconsider this recent resurgence of a more contemporary contagion theory, we replicate and expand upon Aveni's (1977) study of crowd behavior. Our survey data of crowd and collective behavior …
An Examination of Emergent Norms and Emergent Social Structures in Collective Behavior Situations
Although the emergent norm, emergent social structure perspective has been lauded for studying collective behavior, the perspective has not been put to empirical use. In this paper, we use the emergent norm, emergent social structure perspective to describe and analyze collective behavior incidents. These incidents were precipitated by traveling evangelical preachers at a large midwestern university. Data were gathered for this study through syst…
Patterns of Giving and Receiving Help During Severe Winter Conditions
Severe winter conditions and blizzards may cause persons to be stranded, unable to move from one place to another. Being stranded under such conditions can be life-threatening and often requires help. This is a study of giving and receiving help among people who were stranded during severe winter conditions and blizzards in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA and the surrounding countryside in 1976-1977. Mail questionnaire data were collected from the Bowli…
Getting Ready for Blizzards
Preparation for blizzard conditions by respondents in Wood County, Ohio, in 1977–1978 was higher than expected; a majority of those who received warnings responded with further preparation, but planned little more preparation for the winter of 1978–1979. The best predictors of preparation were: place of residence, age, marital status, sex, and occupation. Variables best predicting plans to prepare for the approaching winter were: maintenance expe…
The Interrupted System
According to all accepted criteria, Israel has developed a refined universe of social science research, yet the sociology of war, in a society whose brief history is described by rounds of war, is utterly lacking. Baruch Kimmerling's monumental work is an effort to correct this glaring omission. He does so by calling upon the best in survey research along with a deep reexamination of the classical social science literature on conflict and consens…
An Examination of Emergent Norms and Emergent Social Structures in Collective Behavior Situations
Although the emergent norm, emergent social structure perspective has been lauded for studying collective behavior, the perspective has not been put to empirical use. In this paper, we use the emergent norm, emergent social structure perspective to describe and analyze collective behavior incidents. These incidents were precipitated by traveling evangelical preachers at a large midwestern university. Data were gathered for this study through syst…
Patterns of Giving and Receiving Help During Severe Winter Conditions
Severe winter conditions and blizzards may cause persons to be stranded, unable to move from one place to another. Being stranded under such conditions can be life-threatening and often requires help. This is a study of giving and receiving help among people who were stranded during severe winter conditions and blizzards in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA and the surrounding countryside in 1976-1977. Mail questionnaire data were collected from the Bowli…
A Further Examination of Anonymity, Contagion, and Deindividuation in Crowd and Collective Behavior
A recent wave of research promotes the idea that anonymity or deindividuation precipitates collective behavior. Specifically, anonymous individuals are more likely to participate in collective behavior events than people among friends and acquaintances. To reconsider this recent resurgence of a more contemporary contagion theory, we replicate and expand upon Aveni's (1977) study of crowd behavior. Our survey data of crowd and collective behavior …
Effective Emergency Management
The command and control approach is compared with the Emergent Human Resources Model (EHRM) approach to emergency management. Four decades of systematic research shows that a rigid, bureaucratic command and control approach to emergency management generally leads to an ineffective emergency response. Previous studies and our own research suggest that flexible, malleable, loosely coupled, organizational configurations can create a more effective d…
Reconsidering the Phases of Disaster
The use of disaster phases (e.g., preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation) has assisted both disaster researchers and managers. Disaster researchers have used disaster phases to systematize and codify research results. Disaster managers have drawn upon disaster periods to organize their own activities. Yet, many problems exist with the current use of disaster periods. In summary, I find that the current uses of disaster periods lack conc…
Introduction to Emergency Management
Emergency management university programs have experienced dramatic and exponential growth over the last twelve years. This new, fully updated edition introduces majors and minors to the field and provides content accessible to those students taking introductory emergency management courses. The book‘s strength is in looking at the regional, state
The Survivability of Swedish Emergency Management Related Research Centers and Academic Programs
The Survivability of Swedish Emergency Management Related Research Centers and Academic Programs: A Preliminary Sociology of Science AnalysisDespite being a relatively safe nation, Sweden has four different universities supporting four emergency management research centers and an equal and growing number of academic programs. In this paper, I discuss how these centers and programs survive within the current organizational environment. The sociolo…
Introduction to Emergency Management
Emergency management university programs have experienced dramatic and exponential growth over the last twelve years. This new, fully updated edition introduces majors and minors to the field and provides content accessible to those students taking introductory emergency management courses. The book’s student-centered focus looks at the regional, state, and local level response, as well as some of the often misunderstood or overlooked social aspe…
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Emergency management (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Collective behavior (2 works)