Post-Hurricane
Katrina
Research and Recovery Work
Frederick
D. Weil
Department of Sociology
Louisiana State University
"The
Social Fabric Under Stress"
Surveys of Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina
(funded by the National Science Foundation)
- First
wave, September-November, 2005.
- Second
Wave, February-April,
2006.
- Preliminary Results
- Baton
Rouge Mayor Kip Holden receiving a report
of the results with my sociology methods
class, here.
- Third
Wave, April,
2007.
- Papers & Publications
- "The Burdens
of Social Capital: How Socially-Involved People Dealt
with Stress after Hurricane Katrina," by Frederick
Weil, Edward Shihadeh, and Matthew Lee (A paper submitted
for publication). Pdf
version
- “The
FEMA Trailer Parks: Negative Perceptions and the Social
Structure of Avoidance,” Sociological Spectrum, 27:
741–766, 2007, special issue on Hurricane Katrina, here.
- Video of
a talk I gave (9/1/06) on this research and a preview of
the "Reconstituting Community" research (item above), here.
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