The situation in the Gulf Coast region leaves us feeling helpless. We offer this contribution to thinking about the unexpected as one small way to help understand what we are seeing on CNN go to
http://www.aacc.edu/socgeo/solutioncentered.cfm "Making Sense out of the Unexpected" was formerly Chapter Nine in Solution-Centered Sociology: Addressing Problems through Applied Sociology by Steele, Scarisbrick-Hauser and Hauser, Sage, 1999. The copyright has been relinquished to Steele, Scarisbrick-Hauser and Hauser and we post this chapter (written by AnneMarie Scarisbrick-Hauser) for general enlightenment as well as academic use. A copy may be made free of charge for this use. It requires a pdf reader. Feel free to share it with students and friends if you believe it will do any good. Use it in your teaching. Steve, Annie, Bill
