RESUMO
As a modest first step toward futhering the development of a sociological theory of social organization in disasters. A Quick Response field study was disigned to pretest instruments capable of testing a central proposition from the disaster literature. Namely that characteristics of those some relationships prior to impact. While tha data were actually gathered were useful in describing the incident studied, and even produced data sufficient for the multidimensional among disaster organizations, a multivariate statistical test of theory was not possible. Rather, the problem can be traced back to assumptions contained within tho dominant theory with which sociologists have studied disasters. Other theoretical traditions in the discipline are better suited to the conditions of post-impact field studies, and their use in this area would contribute more to sociological theory. Theory construction will ultimately require the synthesis of microlevel data with existing macrolevel theory. (AU)
