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Charles B. Perrow (February 9, 1925 – November 12, 2019) was an emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University and visiting professor at Stanford University. He authored several books and many articles on organizations, and was primarily concerned with the impact of large organizations on society.
== Academic appointments ==
After attending the University of Washington, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and UC Berkeley, he received his PhD in sociology from Berkeley in 1960.
150: Why You Feel Stuck - The Trap of Complexity
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The Evolution of Ideas in Safety: Are Accidents Preventable?
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E134: Normal Accidents -- Charles Perrow (Summary of Episode)
Coming soon! Our next episode features a 1999 book by Charles Perrow titled Normal Accidents that addresses the risks associated with complex, tightly coupled high-risk technological systems. With the Three Mile Island disaster and a host of other catastrophes, Perrow built a framework that help ...
134: Normal Accidents -- Charles Perrow (Part 1)
This month we are discussing Charles Perrow’s book Normal Accidents that addresses the risks associated with complex, tightly coupled high-risk technological systems. Through analyses of numerous accidents and incidents involving nuclear power plants, petrochemical plants, aerospace and maritime ...
134: Normal Accidents -- Charles Perrow (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our episode on Charles Perrow’s book Normal Accidents, we carry the framework forward into the 21st century to consider newer technological systems (especially in information technology) and the Y2K problem that was looming when the updated edition of the book was published in 1999. ...
ValuJet 592 crashed in 1996 with 110 people aboard. We reconstruct the layered failure and what Perrow's normal accident theory says about why it happened.
In May 1996, ValuJet Flight 592 crashed into the Florida Everglades six minutes after takeoff from Miami, killing all 110 people on board. Investigators traced the fire to chemical oxygen generators loaded into the forward cargo hold without safety caps on their firing pins. What they could not ...
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The Eastland Disaster remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in American history — yet most people have never heard of it. In 1915, the passenger ship SS Eastland rolled onto its side while tied to a dock in downtown Chicago. No storm. No collision. No iceberg. Just a routine day trip t ...
Ep 333 Peacewarts: Morphological Peace 101 – The Biggest Morph: 100% Disarmament (Class 14)
Ep 333 Peacewarts: Morphological Peace 101 – The Biggest Morph: 100% Disarmament (Class 14)
In our final class in Morphological Peace, we examine the difference between a system that is stable and one that is merely frozen. Drawing on C.S. Holling's work on resilience and the rigidity trap, Cha ...
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