Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology

本论文将比较五个拉迪诺社区的农村 危地马拉根据其各种农业生产 系统. 研究的目的是评估 这些生产系统中的每一个都对 社会流动性（即，不断变化的生活水平和获取 随着时间的推移，生产资料）的小型家庭农场。 该研究将使用研究所已经收集的数据， 中美洲和巴拿马的营养情况以及将在2010年 由最初的实地调查产生。 季节性数据 生产方式、种植模式、时间分配、 家庭成员，家庭收入的波动将是 通过对丈夫和妻子的采访， 的间隔

This dissertation will compare five ladino communities of rural Guatemala on the basis of their various agricultural production systems. The objective of the study is to assess the differential impact each of these production systems has on the social mobility (i.e., changing standards of living and access to the means of production over time) of small family farms. The study will use data already collected by the Institute of Nutrition for Central American and Panama and data that will be generated by original fieldwork. Data on the seasonality of production practices, cropping patterns, time allocation of household members, and fluctuations in household income will be collected by interviews with husbands and wives at frequent intervals.