Organizing, Role Enactment, and Disaster

A summary of the strengths and limitations of the archives for theory building, Turner's critique of the earlier study - and an extensive response to that critique - can be found in chapters 1-3 of the book. A precise conception and measurement of role enactment and organizing are then detailed in chapters 4 and 5. Three core dimensions of role are captured empirically as organizing unfolds: role allocation, role complementarity, and role differentiation. Role allocation refers to stability or change in the assumption of post-disaster roles; role complementarity means stability or change in linkages among post-disaster roles; and role differentiation is the stability or change in the performance of post-disaster roles.