Collaborative Research: Global Climate Change: Folk Models and Intracultural Variation

该项目涉及两个文化的合作 人类学家将采访一个相对较小的样本， 北美“街头人士”对他们的看法 全球环境问题的道德评价 气候变化 将构建一个“民间模式”， 代表这些信念，将与类似的 一组访谈和模型，从专家那里得到的， 影响环境（公用事业分析师，环境 游说者、国会工作人员和其他人）。 这些数据将 有助于分析涉及的理论问题， 文化内变异的模式和意义，例如 了解全球变暖的机制和后果 是社会分布的，以及这些知识是否包括 不相关的事实或命题系统的集合。 这项研究很重要，因为人们担心 环境在社会中越来越重要。 增加对大众理解结构的了解 这些问题，以及道德评价，伴随着沿着 这将有助于政策制定者了解公众的反应。

This project involves the collaboration of two cultural anthropologists who will interview a relatively small sample of North American "persons-in-the-street" about their perceptions and moral evaluations of the environmental problems of global climate change. A "folk model" will be constructed that represents these beliefs, which will be compared with a similar set of interviews and model elicited from specialists whose jobs affect the environment (utility analysts, environmental lobbyists, congressional staff, and others). These data will contribute to an analysis of theoretical questions involving the pattern and meaning of intracultural variation, such as how knowledge of the mechanisms and consequences of global warming are socially distributed, and whether this knowledge consists of collections of unconnected facts or systems of propositions. This research is important because concerns about the state of the environment are gaining more significance in society. Increased understanding of the structure of popular understanding of these issues, and the moral evaluations that go along with opinions, will help policy makers understand public reactions.