Surviving families after disaster in Southeast Asia: An understanding from the sociological perspective

Abstract

© 2018, ABAC Journal. This article aims to understand the circumstance of victims of a natural disaster within families from the sociological perspective, using the 2004 Tsunami in Southeast Asia as a basis for this analysis. The development approach simply lays out the discussion into the survival, adjustment, and adaptation phases and each phase applies the theory of economic sociology. In the survival phase, economic sociology explains the social cause and effect of an economic phenomenon; that a lack of financial security nets and a lack of income may increase the vulnerability of families where the breadwinner is lost and traditional gender roles are challenged. In the adjustment phase, the money-related drive of employment results from cultural norms that survivors hold. Beliefs consistent with gender-related cultural norms affect the behavior of employers who hire and workers who select jobs. In adaptation phase, economic actors in concrete social networks or social capital strive to recover their financial stability.