Citation

Cable S, Degutis B. Int. J. Mass Emerg. Disasters 1991; 9(3): 383-399.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, International Sociological Association, International Research Committee on Disasters)

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Abstract

We compare two citizens' organizations and find that mobilization enhanced community solidarity to the point that a collective change of consciousness occurred. We suggest that the effects of a citizens' organization on the host community are significantly determined by three factors: the degree of premobilization integration of the community; the presence of economic constraints made salient by the mobilization issue, and the extent to which the issue cuts across existing political cleavages. We conclude that the study of emergent citizens' groups in disasters is enhanced by using a social movements perspective.