Post-Hurricane Katrina
Research and Recovery Work

Frederick D. Weil
Department of Sociology
Louisiana State University

email: fweil@lsu.edu


"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. In press,Social Science Research.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.06.006, here
      • “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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