Theorizing Disaster: Analogy, historical ethnography, and the Challenger accident

Ethnography

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 315-347

  Vaughan, Diane ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

analogy; culture; deviance; disaster; ethnography; habitus; institutional theory; space shuttle; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247661362     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138104045659     Document Type: Article

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