Sociology of disaster is a special branch of sociology, research being done mostly for applied purposes, especially in the USA, and to some degree as well in Germany and Italy. Theoretically, it includes not only local disasters, but as well catastrophies on a big scale. One of the prominent researchers in this area is Robert A. Stallings.
Sociology is interested in our behavior as social beings; thus the sociological field of interest ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes.
Sociology as a scientific discipline emerged in the early 19th century as an academic response to the challenge of modernity: as the world was becoming smaller and more integrated, people's experience of the world was increasingly atomized and dispersed.
In 1919 a sociology department was established in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich by Max Weber and in 1920 in Poland by Florian Znaniecki.
These processes of rule-making, relu-violation, and rule-enforcement are the core of human life; and the sociology of deviance is a field of study that is flourishing.
Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Trento.
Instead of seeing the two disciplines in antagonistic terms, it is time to recognize that sociology and economics are in fact part of a single discipline, the object of which is the analysis of social facts, of which economic transactions are in the end merely one aspect.
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