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Kai T. Erikson

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Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Kai Theodor Erikson is an Austrian-born American sociologist, noted as an authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events. He served as the 76th president of the American Sociological Association.

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Kai T. Erikson's Published Works

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Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood (1978) (819)
Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance. (1966) (676)
Notes on the Sociology of Deviance (1962) (570)
Notes on trauma and community. (1995) (332)
A new species of trouble : explorations in disaster, trauma, and community (1994) (304)
A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters (1994) (231)
A Comment on Disguised Observation in Sociology (1967) (174)
The Nature of Work (1936) (142)
The Functions of Deviance in Groups (1959) (119)
On Work and Alienation (1986) (97)
Organizing Hazards, Engineering Disasters?: Improving the Recognition of Political-Economic Factors in the Creation of Disasters (2008) (87)
Patient role and social uncertainty; a dilemma of the mentally ill. (1957) (83)
Disaster at Buffalo Creek. Loss of communality at Buffalo Creek. (1976) (82)
American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History (1980) (62)
The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives (1990) (50)
Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste? (2010) (42)
Disproportionality and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (2009) (36)
Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow (2012) (35)
The Confirmation of the Delinquent (1957) (25)
Radiation's Lingering Dread (1991) (22)
The End of an Error (2009) (19)
Reflections on Generativity and Society: A Sociologist's Perspective. (2004) (19)
Hurricane Katrina Research Bibliography (2008) (12)
The Individual and the Social (2018) (11)
Obsolete and Irreversible: Technology, Local Economic Development, and the Environment (2011) (11)
Nuclear waste`s human dimension (1994) (9)
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Social Behavior (1959) (9)
Trauma at Buffalo Creek (1976) (9)
A Reply to Denzin (1968) (7)
On Sociological Writing (2008) (7)
A response to Richard Leo (1996) (5)
Trauma at Buffalo Creek (1976) (5)
Book Review:Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. Howard S. Becker (1964) (4)
"'Brother Can You Spare a Job?': Work and Welfare in the United States" (1990) (3)
The Sociologist's Hand@@@Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article. (1986) (3)
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution.@@@The Fifth Monarchy Men.@@@Wayward Puritans. (1968) (3)
The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives. (1992) (3)
Socioeconomic studies of high-level nuclear waste disposal. (1994) (3)
Nuclear Waste: Progress with Public Engagement—Response (2010) (3)
Disaster at Buffalo Creek (2018) (2)
Psychiatric Ideologies and Institutions.Anselm Strauss , Leonard Schatzman , Rue Bucher , Danuta Ehrlich , Melvin Sabshin (1966) (2)
THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED RED (2011) (2)
Drawing Boundaries@@@Spatial Processes@@@Deviance and Social Control@@@Social Movements@@@Development and the World Economy (1989) (2)
William R. Freudenburg as student (2012) (1)
Show Me the Road to Hydrogen Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) (2008) (1)
The Sociologist's Eye (2018) (1)
A Return to Zero (2016) (1)
Discovering the Social (2018) (1)
The Axe in the Attic (2009) (1)
Obsolete on Delivery: Economic Development and the New Orleans Canals. (2007) (1)
Comment on William C. Metz’“Potential Impacts of Nuclear Activities on Local Economics: Rethinking the Issue”1 (1994) (1)
Sociology: That Awkward Age (1972) (1)
A Mighty Storm Hits the Shore (2009) (0)
A “Helpful Explosion” (2009) (0)
Book review: A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma and Community: (676482011-013) (2013) (0)
The Fate of the Inner City (1998) (0)
Encounters (1989) (0)
Impressions of Russian psychiatry-some travel notes. (1962) (0)
Critical for Economic Survival (2009) (0)
The Inefficient Years (1966) (0)
The Loss of Natural Defenses (2009) (0)
Coming to Terms with Social Life (2018) (0)
Workshop 6: Should and Can Legal Services Be integrated with Community Mental Health Services? (1966) (0)
It Seemed Like the Whole Bay Died (2018) (0)
Sociology: That Awkward Age (SSSP Presidential Address, 1971) (1972) (0)
Echoes of War (2008) (0)
The Nature of Work The Nature of Work, edited by EriksonKai VallasSteven P.. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990, 378 pp., $35.00 cloth. (1991) (0)
Introduction: A Way of Looking (2018) (0)
The First Days of Katrina (2009) (0)
Becoming a People (2018) (0)
View from the Fourteenth Floor (2018) (0)
The Collapse of Engineered Systems (2009) (0)
Book Review:Social Science in Nursing: Applications for the Improvement of Patient Care. Frances Cooke MacGregor (1961) (0)
Case Records in the Mental Hospital (2019) (0)
Slicing Through the Swamps (2009) (0)
The Journey of Piotr and Kasia Walkowiak (2018) (0)
Knowing the Place for the First Time (2018) (0)
Volume Information (1972) (0)
Kai's Response to Howard, Hana, Ben, and Dorothy (2008) (0)
Work, Workplaces, and Beyond@@@The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives. (1991) (0)
The Continuing Storm (2022) (0)
John Kitsuse: An Appreciation (2009) (0)
Becoming a Person (2018) (0)
War Comes to Pakrac (2018) (0)
The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans (2009) (0)

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