Surviving Families After Disaster In Southeast Asia: An Understanding From A Sociological Perspective

Abstract

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.