SGER: The Social Fabric Under Stress. Baton Rouge's Explosive Growth after Hurricane Katrina

压力下的社会结构。路易斯安那州立大学飓风后，巴吞鲁日的爆炸性增长弗雷德里克·韦尔、爱德华·希哈德、马修·李卡特里娜和丽塔使数十万人流离失所，其中许多人被疏散到附近的城市和社区。与人口规模相比，巴吞鲁日接收的疏散人口比例可能是最大的；据一些估计，在大约40万的人口基础上，又增加了多达25万人，其中相当一部分人预计将长期或永久留在那里。这项研究调查了这种涌入给巴吞鲁日的社会结构带来的压力。然后，它在之前年度社区调查的基础上，开发了一个小组样本，该样本始于飓风发生前的春季，并将在飓风发生后的一年中继续进行三次额外的浪潮。这项研究侧重于社会资本、社区参与、关系和信任对一系列结果的影响，包括当局的信任或指责、公共政策偏好、对犯罪的恐惧、压力感和/或乐观情绪、对疏散人员的态度，以及群体间关系，特别是种族关系。考虑到事件的规模，PI预计会衡量其他情况下难以检测到的影响。这项研究涉及社会学、政治学和犯罪学的核心问题。研究人员还为当地政府和公民、宗教、救济和经济组织提供了他们可以在决策中使用的结果。这项活动建立在与这些领导人持续关系的基础上：市长在过去四年里出席了私人投资机构的简报会，个人投资机构向领导人和社区团体提供了大量的简报、情况介绍和政策简报。

The Social Fabric Under Stress. Baton Rouge's Explosive Growth after Hurricane KatrinaFrederick Weil, Edward Shihadeh, Matthew Lee, Louisiana State UniversityAbstractHurricanes Katrina and Rita displaced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, and many of them evacuated to nearby cities and communities. Baton Rouge received perhaps the largest share of evacuees relative to its population size; as many as a quarter million added to a population base of about 400,000, according to some estimates and a substantial number of them are expected to remain long-term or permanently. This study investigates the strains on Baton Rouge's social fabric posed by this influx. It then builds on previous annual community surveys, and develops a panel sample that began the spring before the hurricanes and will continue for three additional waves over the course of the year following the event. The study focuses on the impact that social capital, community involvement, connections, and trust, has on a range of outcomes, including trust or blame of authorities, public policy preferences, fear of crime, feelings of stress and/or optimism, attitudes toward the evacuees, and intergroup relations, especially race relations. Given the magnitude of the event, the PIs expect to measure effects that are otherwise difficult to detect. The study addresses central concerns of sociology, political science, and criminology. The researchers also provide local government and civic, religious, relief, and economic organizations with findings they can use in their decision-making. This activity builds on on-going relationships with these leaders: the mayor has attended the PIs' briefings for the last four years, and the PIs have provided leaders and community groups with numerous briefings, fact sheets, and policy briefs.