The Group 1 Research Team is composed of Brian Bannon, Rod McWilliams, Casey Jackson, Dana Fink, and Ashley Morrison. Our three part project seeks to provide the reader with a broad understanding of the cultural responses to 9/11 by investigating sociology, politics, economics, transportation, and mental health by conducting a literature review, application of social vulnerability theory to current research, and present a proposal for future research to be conducted by the Research Team.

The first part of the project, the literature review, provides the reader with an introduction to the social components of the response to the 9/11 disaster by reviewing scholarly works on the subject pertinent to sociology, politics, economics, transportation, and mental health.

The second part of the project, theory, seeks to explain the cultural response to the 9/11 disaster by using social vulnerability as the framework within which the disaster is explored. Our exploration of social vulnerability theory, and its ability and inability to fully address the subject matter, provides the groundwork for determining what is missing from our understanding of the tragedy.

The third part of the project, the proposal, explains why we believe we should conduct further research on cultural reactions to 9/11. We explain our project's background and cite examples of why further research is needed and to what end. Special considerations such as budget are also taken into account.

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